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Ronald Bourret wrote: > <!ATTLIST a:my_element > a:my_attribute CDATA #IMPLIED> > > What does it mean and why is the prefix legal for the attribute? DTDs have > no way to declare global attributes [...] Sure they do. There's just no way to declare them once and for all: the declaration must be repeated for every element, as here. Remember that "global attribute" does not mean "universally applicable attribute" but rather "attribute with (by convention) a universal meaning." > The only thing I can think of is so global attributes can be declared in > and validated against XML 1.0 DTDs by declaring them on each element. Just so. One might have a global attribute such as "iso4217:currency" that is applicable only to a few attributes in a particular DTD, those which represent money amounts. But its meaning would be universal: an ISO 4217 currency code. -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) 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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