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Re: Deterministic content models???

• To: "Andrew Dubinsky" <andy@e...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: Deterministic content models???
• From: Robin LaFontaine <robin.lafontaine@d...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:42:01 +0100
• In-reply-to: <000201c23d8e$fb8b0e80$6e02a8c0@e...>
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Andrew,

This looks OK to me, the () round DATA, VIEW* are redundant, so we have:

<!ELEMENT SMART_DOCUMENT (HEADER , DATA , VIEW* , AUDIT_TRAIL ,
SIGNATURES?)>
<!ELEMENT DATA (MAIN , MAP? , CUSTOM?)>

which I believe is OK. I can only suggest it is due to the () being 
wrongly interpreted somewhere. Where are you getting this error 
message?

Robin La Fontaine

At 4:19 pm -0500 6/8/02, Andrew Dubinsky wrote:
>I received the following error when I parse an xml document:
>
>>>  The content model must be deterministic. Multiple definition of
>element 'DATA' causes content model to become ambiguous.
>
>Here is the element in question:
>
><!ELEMENT SMART_DOCUMENT (HEADER , (DATA , VIEW*) , AUDIT_TRAIL ,
>SIGNATURES?)>
><!ELEMENT DATA (MAIN , MAP? , CUSTOM?)>
>
>Can someone be kind enough to explain me why this is not a valid DTD?
>
>I think the concept is that there can be multiple DATA sections and
>multiple VIEW sections within one document.
>
>
>TIA,
>Andrew Dubinsky
>
>P.s. I did not create the DTD, so I do not have the ability to edit it.
>I am not using the DATA element more than once in the document.
>
>
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