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Re: Newbie question:DTD problem(#PCDATA)

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• Subject: Re: Newbie question:DTD problem(#PCDATA)
• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 23:06:02 GMT
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• Organization: HCRC, University of Edinburgh

>Changing to from "+" to "*" makes bio contain zero or more
>#PCDATA/footnote. In this case, neither #PCDAT nor footnote is required
>for bio. And that violates my original design. Therefore, I don't think
>"*" will make them equvalent from my understanding. So, what I actualy
>try to achieve is to let bio at least have one element:#PCDATA or
>footnote. Could you help me to clearify that? Thanks!!

There's no way to enforce that with a DTD.  Using * is the best you
can do.

-- Richard

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