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Adrian Brogan asked: > Can anyone give me a definitive answer to this scenario ? > > Consider the following xml > > <one> > This is some text > <two> > bulrb blurb blurb > </two> > and some more text. > </one> > > Is the positioning of the character data in element <one> significant ? > I.e. Would the following fragment of xml be considered the same as the one > above ? > > <one> > This is some text > and some more text. > <two> > bulrb blurb blurb > </two> > </one> > It's only my opinion, but I'd say there's not practical difference since both versions can be covered by the same DTD declarations: <!ELEMENT one ((#PCDATA | two)*)> <!ELEMENT two (#PCDATA)> Unless I'm mistaken, you could enforce a difference in SGML but in XML -- because of the enforced order of mixed content elements (see the declaration of element one) -- you aren't allowed to declare the distinction. Simon North 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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