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RE: Deterministic content models???

• To: "'Andrew Dubinsky'" <andy@e...>, "'Robin LaFontaine'" <robin.lafontaine@d...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Deterministic content models???
• From: Doug Rudder <drudder@d...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 10:04:29 -0500

The parens are most likely the issue.  We had an SGML DTD that had a similar
construction for allowing tables within paracontent; we wanted to restrict
the use of table footnotes to immediately follow the tables.  Thus we
embedded parens to control this structure:

<!ENTITY % paracontent "(%text; | %list; | (table , tabnote*) | figure)+" >

This works fine in SGML.  XML does not like it.  For XML versions of the
DTD, we had to take the parens out and change the , to |.  This did not hurt
us at the time because our authoring was done in SGML following the more
rigid rules; the SGML was then converted to XML for electronic product
development with no further authoring/editing done.  We have since resolved
this problem by handling tables and tabnotes in a different way.

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Dubinsky [mailto:andy@e...]
Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 8:34 AM
To: 'Robin LaFontaine'; xml-dev@l...
Subject: RE:  Deterministic content models???



The error was generated by .NET's xml reader. Document opens and
validates in Oxygen 1.2 and was written in XmlSpy. Seems like an MS
issue (would not surprise me), but strange in the interpretation.

I will check if it's the parens. All in all, seems like MS' parser is
broke.

Andrew Dubinsky 

> 
> <!ELEMENT SMART_DOCUMENT (HEADER , DATA , VIEW* , AUDIT_TRAIL 
> , SIGNATURES?)> <!ELEMENT DATA (MAIN , MAP? , CUSTOM?)>
> 
> which I believe is OK. I can only suggest it is due to the () being 
> wrongly interpreted somewhere. Where are you getting this error 
> message?
> 
> Robin La Fontaine
> 
> At 4:19 pm -0500 6/8/02, Andrew Dubinsky wrote:
> >I received the following error when I parse an xml document:
> >


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