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Paul Prescod <paul@p...> writes: > "Henry S. Thompson" wrote: > > > >... > > > Can someone extend it: > > > > > > <!ELEMENT a' ((b,c)+,c,b)> > > > > Yes. > > > > > If so, that could really confuse most element-triggered processing > > > specifications. > > > > Not sure what you mean. This is a difficult case to start with (it's > > DT/DD under another name, a well-known pain for XPath). But if I > > tackle it in the usual way, i.e. by recursion over the nodelist > > picking of b+c pairs, it will work just fine, i.e. stop after the b+c > > pairs run out, ignoring the new material. > > Given the content model: > > <!ELEMENT a (b, c)> presume you still mean (b, c)+ > > Here's the usual way to handle it: > > <xsl:template match="a"> > <dl><xsl:apply-templates/></dl> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="b"> > <dt><xsl:apply-templates/></dt> > </xsl:template> > > <xsl:template match="c"> > <dt><xsl:apply-templates/></dt> > </xsl:template> Presume you mean <dd>...</dd> > This is guaranteed to produce valid XHTML given the original content > model. But the following extension will trick it into producing invalid > XHTML: > > <!ELEMENT a' ((b,c)+,c,b)> Um, no, the content model for dl in XHTML is (dt|dd)*, which will cover what your rules produce, and what they produce will look OK too. If your stylesheet were more along the lines I suggested, i.e. designed to add the structure which HTML doesn't provide, the behaviour will be as I said. ht -- Henry S. Thompson, HCRC Language Technology Group, University of Edinburgh W3C Fellow 1999--2002, part-time member of W3C Team 2 Buccleuch Place, Edinburgh EH8 9LW, SCOTLAND -- (44) 131 650-4440 Fax: (44) 131 650-4587, e-mail: ht@c... URL: http://www.ltg.ed.ac.uk/~ht/ [mail really from me _always_ has this .sig -- mail without it is forged spam]
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