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Re: Help creating DTD

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Help creating DTD
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 09 Jul 2002 22:37:47 +0200
• Cc: Karl Stubsjoen <karl@e...>,Xml-Dev <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <200207092032.QAA12853@m...>
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Hi John,

On Tue, 2002-07-09 at 22:30, John Cowan wrote:

> However, a pure number cannot have the ID property, because IDs must be
> XML names, and so begin with a letter.  So your document will not validate
> against this DTD.
> 
> Here's a RELAX NG schema:
> 
> element ORDER {
> 	element UID {text},
> 	element DEALER {text},
> 	element ORDERS {
> 		element ITEM {
> 			attribute id {xsd:ID},

No, you have the same restriction in W3C XML Schema ID datatype than in
DTDs and this wouldn't work either!

Eric

> 			text
> 		}*
> 	}
> }
> 
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