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RE: Deterministic content models???

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• Subject: RE: Deterministic content models???
• From: "McNally, David" <David.McNally@m...>
• Date: Wed, 7 Aug 2002 11:07:43 -0400

The error message is correct.  If the parser encounters a DATA element,
using this content model it can't figure out what should come next - VIEW*
or VIEW+.  To fix the problem change the content model to:

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

or even

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

both of which do what I think you want.

As others have pointed out, there is no problem with the original model you
posted.

Hope this helps,
David.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Dubinsky [mailto:andy@e...]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 07, 2002 10:31 AM
> To: 'John Evdemon'; xml-dev@l...
> Subject: RE:  Deterministic content models???
> 
> 
> 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


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