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Re: Re:DTD Design

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: Re:DTD Design
• From: Sean McGrath <sean.mcgrath@p...>
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 18:40:05 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200211201830.NAA19784@m...>
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At 13:16 20/11/2002 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Sean McGrath scripsit:
>
> > Old-timers on the list will remember the RANK feauture of SGML which
> > allowed a single element type declaration to infer the creation
> > of a familiy of numbered elements types. So you could declare
> > SECT and have tagging for SECT1, SECT2, SECT3 etc.
>
>Were all of SECT1, SECT2 etc. identical as far as content model, attributes,
>etc.?

My memory is fuzzy on this. I believe you had to declare the elements like so:

<!ELEMENT sect 1 - O (...)>
<!ELEMENT sect 2 - O (...)>

But that if you had in the instance:
<sect1>
<sect>
</sect1>

The inner element was inferred to be a sect2...or something like that!

Rick?

Sean

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