They are not of type item. They are of type "<a>", "<b>" and "<c>". You
can verify my interpretation of regular expressions with something like
grep: 

"<list>.*(<item>)*.*</list>

This will match <list><a><b><c></list>

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

[Woody Allen on Hollywood in "Annie Hall"]
Annie: "It's so clean down here."
Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make 
        it into television shows."



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