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Matt, Then let me ask another question - why do DTDs not allow me to specify an unordered list of elements? For example, <!ELEMENT Kitchen RDF:Bag(Sink, Stove, Refrigerator)> With this notation I am trying to indicate that an XML document that conforms to this DTD must have a <Kitchen> element which has three child elements - <Sink>, <Stove>, and <Refrigerator>, and these child elements can be in any order. Isn't this a useful thing? I have had a number of times where I wish that I could do this. I gather from your message that you are saying that it is not a limitation of XML, but rather a limitation of DTDs? How about DCDs? Thanks. /Roger Matthew Sergeant (EML) wrote: > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Roger L. Costello [SMTP:costello@m...] > > > > Why doesn't XML support the notion of an unordered list of elements, > > i.e., a Bag? Perhaps this is a limitation of DTD, not XML? That is, > > DTDs do not support Bags, but XML has no such inherent limitation? Does > > DCD support Bags? /Roger > > > Unordered list in XML: > > <ul> > <li>An Item</li> > <li>Another Item</li> > </ul> > > Ordered list in XML: > > <ol> > <li>Item 1</li> > <li>Item 2</li> > </ol> > > The point is an unordered list is an application level issue, not an > XML level issue - it's easy to implement one at your application level. Nay > - I would go as far as to say it's trivial. > > Matt. > -- > http://come.to/fastnet > Perl on Win32, PerlScript, ASP, Database, XML > GCS(GAT) d+ s:+ a-- C++ UL++>UL+++$ P++++$ E- W+++ N++ w--@$ O- M-- !V > !PS !PE Y+ PGP- t+ 5 R tv+ X++ b+ DI++ D G-- e++ h--->z+++ R+++ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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