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[Parik Rao] > Hi, I'm trying to figure out how do I do parameter validation in my > DTD. For example, I have an element which specifies a SIZE as an > attribute. I'd like to enforce certain rules : the charaacter data > in size is digits and the size is always less than 1,000,000 (for > example). As far as I can figure out, there is no way to do this! > E.g. > > <ATTLIST MYELEMENT > SIZE CDATA #REQUIRED > > > > Well, how do I set validation parameters for size? I tried to play > around with entity but really couldn't come up with anything: > > <!ENTITY % NUMBERONLY ...now I'm stuck> > <!ATTLIST MYELEMENT SIZE %NUMBERONLY;> > > Anyone done this sort of thing? Is this sort of validation beyond > the scope of DTDs? On the nose: this is beyond the scope of DTDs. This kind of restriction must be specified as an application restriction, and enforced by means outside the current scope of XML. A stylesheet might be able to check the attribute value, and throw an error if it doesn't conform (if the XSL WG decides to have error handling); an XML application could check this information after the parser parses the data. There's also work ongoing about XML-Data, which would permit you to specify restrictions like this. However, it's not done (or close, I think). -Chris -- <!NOTATION SGML.Geek PUBLIC "-//Anonymous//NOTATION SGML Geek//EN"> <!ENTITY crism PUBLIC "-//O'Reilly//NONSGML Christopher R. Maden//EN" "<URL>http://www.oreilly.com/people/staff/crism/ <TEL>+1.617.499.7487 <USMAIL>90 Sherman Street, Cambridge, MA 02140 USA" NDATA SGML.Geek> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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