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Re: Deterministic content models???

• To: drudder@d... (Doug Rudder)
• Subject: Re: Deterministic content models???
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:29:50 -0400 (EDT)
• Cc: andy@e... ('Andrew Dubinsky'), robin.lafontaine@d... ('Robin LaFontaine'), xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <7FEEE73A06F3D411A99D00508BD634100104E536@FACEXCH1> from "Doug Rudder" at Aug 07, 2002 10:04:29 AM

Doug Rudder scripsit:

> <!ENTITY % paracontent "(%text; | %list; | (table , tabnote*) | figure)+" >
> 
> This works fine in SGML.  XML does not like it.  For XML versions of the
> DTD, we had to take the parens out and change the , to |.  

I am willing to bet that "%text;" expands to some choice of elements and
#PCDATA, and XML can only cope with #PCDATA in the very limited frame
"(#PCDATA | element1 | element2 ...)", no extra parens or commas allowed.

-- 
John Cowan          http://www.ccil.org/~cowan        jcowan@r...
To say that Bilbo's breath was taken away is no description at all.  There are
no words left to express his staggerment, since Men changed the language that
they learned of elves in the days when all the world was wonderful. --The Hobbit

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