RE: Outstanding Argument!

At 12:07 PM 5/9/00 -0400, Eddy wrote:
>Granted on that situation but consider the following if you
>will.
>
>(I Know out of scope)
>DTD
><!ELMENT A (#PCDATA)>
><!ATTLIST A 
>	a	(David|XSL|David/XSL)  #IMPLIED >

Enumerated attribute values in the DTD must follow the rules of Nmtoken
tokens (cf. production 59, XML 3.3.1). The "/" is not allowed in Nmtokens.
But much or most XSL processing does not validate against a DTD first, and
will parse it with no problems (not even being aware that the value must be
one of those enumerated).

So Eddy, the answer to your question is, "it depends on the context." You
are correct, the declaration in the DTD above isn't legal.

It's one of those cases where the phrasing and completeness of the question
is very important. And (like the other DTD thread) another question that
would've been very good for XML-L. Oh well.

--Wendell


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