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Re: Element content

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• Subject: Re: Element content
• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• Date: 20 Jan 2003 09:26:08 +0100
• In-reply-to: <GCEDKONBLEFPPADDJCOEKEMCHHAA.whisper@o...>
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On Mon, 2003-01-20 at 09:06, David LeBlanc wrote:
> A question has arisen about element content. I'm reasonably sure I've read
> that it's illegal for an element to contain itself either directly or
> indirectly. 

No, that's perfectly legal...

The W3C specifications themselves give numerous examples (span and div
XHTML elements, W3C XML Schema's xs:element, XSLT xsl:if...) of such
recursive contents.

Eric

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