Re: XSLT choking on DTD?

Hi, I wasn't aware of that (well-formedness?) constraint... I think XSLT
in particular wasn't choking, but the XML parse of the source document was
being reported through the XSLT processor, which confused me.

I've solved the problem by throwing out my flow entity altogether.

Dan

On Mon, 22 Nov 1999, Nikolai Grigoriev wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> >It might be useful to know:
> >
> ><!ENTITY % inline "#PCDATA | %fontstyle; | %phrase; | %special;">
> >
> >I think the problem is surrounding the PCDATA...
> 
> 
> Yes, probably it is. Once you have #PCDATA children, you cannot build
> nested expressions, only plain disjunctions followed by an asterisk.
> [see XML Spec 3.2.2].
> 
> I suggest writing <!ENTITY % flow "(%inline; | %block;)*"> instead
> (provided that %block is also a plain list of items). Maybe this is not
> what you mean; but what you mean cannot be expressed, because
> for elements with character contents, "the types of the child elements
> may be constrained, but not their order or their number of occurrences"
> [XML Spec, 3.2.2]. You cannot force %inlines to precede %blocks.
> 
> Regards,
> Nikolai
> 
> >On Sun, 21 Nov 1999, disco wrote:
> >
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I'm having a strange problem: XSLT (both XT and LotusXSL) are choking on
> a
> >> part of my DTD:
> >>
> >> <!ENTITY % flow "(%inline;)* | (%block;)*">
> >> ...
> >> <!ELEMENT footnote (%flow;)>
> >>
> >> Note that inline and block are properly defined earlier in the DTD, and
> >> are just fine as far as all elements which use them directly are
> >> concerned.
> >>
> >> I have tried manually replacing "%flow;" with its expansion,
> unfortunately
> >> to no avail. Regardless of what I do, XSLT gripes that I'm missing a '('
> >> somewhere.
> >>
> >> Any ideas what could be going on here?
> >>
> >> Thanks,
> >> Dan
> 
> 
> 
> 
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