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RE: Deterministic content models???

• To: "'John Evdemon'" <jevdemon@a...>, <xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Deterministic content models???
• From: "Andrew Dubinsky" <andy@e...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 09:31:03 -0500
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• In-reply-to: <3D501259.32004.1AD62D3@localhost>

John:


I can't post the entire set of DTD's, but here is a second instance of
the problem with a different DTD:

	Message  : The content model must be deterministic. Multiple
definition of element 'DATA' causes content model to become ambiguous.
An error occurred at smartdoc_V_1_0.dtd(42, 75).

42: <!ELEMENT SMARTDOC (HEADER, ((DATA, VIEW*) | (DATA?, VIEW+)),
SIGNATURES?)>

Don't they both say the same thing?

I am using MS .NET Xml parser (XmlValidatingReader) 

TIA,
Andrew Dubinsky


> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Evdemon [mailto:jevdemon@a...] 
> Sent: Tuesday, August 06, 2002 5:16 PM
> To: xml-dev@l...; Andrew Dubinsky
> Subject: Re:  Deterministic content models???
> 
> 
> On 6 Aug 2002 at 16:19, Andrew Dubinsky wrote:
> 
> > I received the following error when I parse an xml document:
> > 
> > >> The content model must be deterministic. Multiple definition of
> > element 'DATA' causes content model to become ambiguous.
> > 
> > Here is the element in question:
> > 
> > <!ELEMENT SMART_DOCUMENT (HEADER , (DATA , VIEW*) , AUDIT_TRAIL , 
> > SIGNATURES?)> <!ELEMENT DATA (MAIN , MAP? , CUSTOM?)>
> > 
> > Can someone be kind enough to explain me why this is not a 
> valid DTD?
> > 
> This is strange - the error message seems to be incorrect.  
> What parser are you using?  Can you post a copy of the full DTD?
> 

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