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   Re: Yet another validity question

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  • From: John Cowan <cowan@locke.ccil.org>
  • To: XML Dev <xml-dev@ic.ac.uk>
  • Date: Fri, 23 Apr 1999 09:44:49 -0400

Liam R. E. Quin wrote:

> One reason it is there is to allow "elephants", but exclusions were
> later removed from XML:
>     <!ELEMENT HOLDER - O (ELEPHANT*) -ELEPHANT>
> in which HOLDER must now be empty but can have a missing end tag.

I suppose you mean "can have an explicit end tag", no?  After all,
ordinary EMPTY elements don't have end tags.
 
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John Cowan	http://www.ccil.org/~cowan		cowan@ccil.org
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	You spigotty anglease?  Nnn.  You phonio saxo?  Nnnn.
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