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- From: smessenger@mms.org
- To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2000 14:15:51 -0400
Let's not forget about the omnipotent ANY...
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Sean Messenger
Senior Internet Developer
Massachusetts Medical Society, www.mms.org
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smessenger@mms.org
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'If you're not part of the solution, you're part of the precipitate.'
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kay Michael [SMTP:Michael.Kay@icl.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, July 25, 2000 1:59 PM
> To: 'Michel Rodriguez'; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> Subject: RE: Can an element be sometimes empty?
>
> A DTD that allows mixed content also allows empty content.
>
> Mike Kay
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Michel Rodriguez [mailto:mrodrigu@ieee.org]
> > Sent: 25 July 2000 18:13
> > To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
> > Subject: Can an element be sometimes empty?
> >
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I came accross an interesting albeit theoretical problem today: can an
> > element in a well-formed XML document be sometimes empty and sometimes
> > not?
> >
> > <doc>
> > <weird_element/>
> > <weird_element>with a content </weird_element>
> > </doc>
> >
> > I saw nothing in the spec about this situation, but on the
> > other hand this
> > poor well-formed document has no way of ever becoming valid,
> > as the spec
> > states (rule 46) that an element's contentspec is either
> > EMPTY or MIXED or
> > children. So you can't write a DTD for it.
> >
> > Expat does not seem to have a problem with it though.
> >
> > Is this a hole in the spec or did I miss something?
> >
> > Michel Rodriguez
> > m.v.rodriguez@ieee.org
> > http://www.xmltwig.cx
> >
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