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- From: Chris Maden <crism@oreilly.com>
- To: xml-dev@ic.ac.uk
- Date: Mon, 21 Sep 1998 15:04:34 -0400 (EDT)
[Jerome McDonough]
> In looking over the XML spec (3.2.2) on mixed content models,
> something isn't clear to me. I'm hoping someone here can enlighten
> me.
>
> I've inherited a DTD for development that was originally
> intended to be an SGML DTD, and has been converted to XML.
> Contained within it is the following:
>
> <!ELEMENT qstn (#PCDATA | (preQTxt?, qstnLit?, postQTxt?, forward?,
> backward?, ivuInstr*))*
>
> Is this a legitimate content model under XML section 3.2.2?
No. See production [51]. A mixed content declaration MUST be of the
forms
<!ELEMENT e-type1 (#PCDATA | sub1 | sub2 | sub3)*>
<!ELEMENT e-type2 (#PCDATA)>
This is not optional.
> Msxml doesn't have a problem with it, and nsgmls using the -wxml
> flag also happily parses the DTD. IBM's xml4j, however, complains:
> "Codebook.dtd: 1256, 33: This content model is not matched with the
> mixed model '(#PCDATA|FOO|BAR|. . .|BAZ)*': '(#PCDATA|(preQTxt?,
> qstnLit?, postQTxt?,forward?,backward?,ivuInstr*))*".
I'm a little surprised that nsgmls doesn't catch this; however, the
-wxml option warns about some, or even most, XML errors, but not all
of them.
Fortunately, your content model is equivalent to
<!ELEMENT qstn (#PCDATA | preQTxt | qstnLit | postQTxt | forward |
backward | ivuInstr)*>
so this isn't a real problem. In some cases, it is true that content
models will need to be either tightened or loosened to be expressed as
XML (notably models involving exceptions).
-Chris
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