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Rick Jelliffe wrote: > Many people recommend that an attribute should only be called > "ID" if it is an ID attribute. So in the following, x1 is good and > x2 is naughty: > > <!ATTLIST x1 ID ID #REQURIED> > <!ATTLIST x2 ID CDATA #REQURIED> > > I think it is good practice anyway: dont name an attribute > using an XML keyword if that is not the type you want. True, but the requirements of the attribute may not be known until processing time. You may use a parameter entity in the declaration subset and assign the value based on whether the parser will have access to the rest of the dataset or whether this is a subset that would result on the generation of useless and unwanted errors, ie: <!ATTLIST x1 ID %IDorCDATA; #REQURIED> in the DTD, and then, depending on the doctype element, generate either: <!DOCTYPE WholeDataSet PUBLIC "-//My//DTD for example//EN" [ <!ATTLIST IDorCDATA "ID">]> or: <!DOCTYPE DataSetFrag PUBLIC "-//My//DTD for example//EN" [ <!ATTLIST IDorCDATA "CDATA">]> at the head of the instance. -- Regards Marcus Carr email: mrc@a... _______________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) email: info@a... Level 10, 91 York Street www: http://www.allette.com.au Sydney 2000 NSW Australia phone: +61 2 9262 4777 fax: +61 2 9262 4774 _______________________________________________________________ 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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