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- From: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- To: David Megginson <david@megginson.com>
- Date: Sat, 05 Jun 1999 15:27:37 +0200
David Megginson wrote:
>
> David LeBlanc writes:
>
> (on DTDs)
>
> > Ok, now i'm confused David - your second statement seems to
> > contradict your first statement.
>
> If you give me a single, well-formed XML document, I can *always*
> write a DTD that describes its structure.
Yes. You declare each observed element, give it a content model of any,
declare each observed attribute, and make it PCDATA.
That minimally describes it, like an RFC 822 email message can be
describes as "a sequence of characters"; and likewise, it doesn't
necessarily fully describe it or capture all the constraints that would
be wished.
--
Chris
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