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Albena, When the order is not important you can do like this <!ELEMENT header (Identification | Weight | Category | Keyword )* > or <!ELEMENT header Identification, ( Weight | Category | Keyword )* > but in your case, since there restrictions on the no of occurrences you the order has to be specified. I don't think there is any other way out. <!ELEMENT header (Identification, Weight?, Category+, Keyword* )> Regards, Dharmesh -----Original Message----- From: Albena Georgieva [mailto:albena@i...] Sent: Wednesday, November 14, 2001 5:15 AM To: Xml-Dev (E-mail) Subject: How to avoid the sequens of child elements in DTD, yet keep the cardinality? Hi there, I am creating a DTD document and I have difficulty to express that the element type Header: 1. must have one and only one child element of type Indentification 2. Can have [0 ... 1] Weight children elements 3. Must have at least one Category child element 4. Can have [0 ... n] Keywords 5. The order of the different children is not important 6. If there are several children of the same type, then they should be following each other Good example: <Header> <Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword> <Keyword>Tennis</Keyword> <Identification id="1111"/> <Category>Sports</Category> </Header> Another good example: <Header> <Category>Sports</Category> <Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword> <Keyword>Tennis</Keyword> <Identification id="1111"/> <Weight priority="3"/> </Header> Not accepted example <Header> <Category>Sports</Category> <Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword> <Identification id="1111"/> <Keyword>Tennis</Keyword> <Weight priority="3"/> </Header> I tried as follows: <!ELEMENT header (Identification| Weight? | Category+ | Keyword* )+> But then also this example becomes valid which is not what I am aiming to: <Header> <Category>Sports</Category> <Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword> <Keyword>Tennis</Keyword> <Identification id="1111"/> <Weight priority="3"/> <Category>Sports</Category> <Identification id="2222"/> </Header> And if I say so: <!ELEMENT header (Identification, Weight?, Category+, Keyword* )> It is better, but then we have to comply to the sequence of the children, which is what I want to avoid ... Any ideas, help please? I wish you all a very nice day! Greeting, Albena Georgieva ----------------------------------------------------------------- The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl>
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