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Re: Re:DTD Design

• To: sean.mcgrath@p... (Sean McGrath)
• Subject: Re: Re:DTD Design
• From: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:16:02 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <5.1.0.14.0.20021120175432.0280cd80@m...> from "Sean McGrath" at Nov 20, 2002 06:04:26 PM

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.?

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John Cowan  jcowan@r...  www.ccil.org/~cowan  www.reutershealth.com
"The competent programmer is fully aware of the strictly limited size of his own
skull; therefore he approaches the programming task in full humility, and among
other things he avoids clever tricks like the plague."  --Edsger Dijkstra

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