Re: Enumerations

[Patrick Ohl <Patrick.Ohl@o-h-l.de>]

Hi John,

It is definitely illegal. Just have a look at the Spec:

A NMTOKEN must contain at least one NameChar (
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-Nmtoken )
Your Attribute List declaration is also lacking of a DefaultDecl (
http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#NT-DefaultDecl )

But it is possible to construct a definition for what (I think) you want
to say:

<!ATTLIST pangolin
	color (green|blue|red) #IMPLIED
>

With this a non specified attribute is possible.

Greetings,

	Patrick



> "Anderson, John" wrote:
> 
> Can anyone help?
> 
> According to my reading of XML1.0, the following would be an illegal
> declaration:
> 
> <!ATTLIST pangolin color ( |green|blue|red) >
> 
> because enumerations must be made up of nmtokens, and a nmtoken must
> contain at least one namechar.
> 
> However, most parsers seem to accept this.
> 
> Anyone know if my interpretation is correct, and as a bonus question,
> does the same apply to enumeration facets in XSD?
> 
> John
> 
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