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How to avoid the sequens of child elements in DTD, yet keep the cardinality?
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- Subject: How to avoid the sequens of child elements in DTD, yet keep the cardinality?
- From: Albena Georgieva <albena@info.nl>
- Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 14:15:01 +0100
Hi there,
I am creating a DTD document and I have difficulty to express
that the element type Header:
1. must have one and only one child element of type Indentification
2. Can have [0 ... 1] Weight children elements
3. Must have at least one Category child element
4. Can have [0 ... n] Keywords
5. The order of the different children is not important
6. If there are several children of the same type, then they should be
following each other
Good example:
<Header>
<Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword>
<Keyword>Tennis</Keyword>
<Identification id="1111"/>
<Category>Sports</Category>
</Header>
Another good example:
<Header>
<Category>Sports</Category>
<Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword>
<Keyword>Tennis</Keyword>
<Identification id="1111"/>
<Weight priority="3"/>
</Header>
Not accepted example
<Header>
<Category>Sports</Category>
<Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword>
<Identification id="1111"/>
<Keyword>Tennis</Keyword>
<Weight priority="3"/>
</Header>
I tried as follows:
<!ELEMENT header (Identification| Weight? | Category+ | Keyword* )+>
But then also this example becomes valid which is not what I am aiming to:
<Header>
<Category>Sports</Category>
<Keyword>Navratilova</Keyword>
<Keyword>Tennis</Keyword>
<Identification id="1111"/>
<Weight priority="3"/>
<Category>Sports</Category>
<Identification id="2222"/>
</Header>
And if I say so:
<!ELEMENT header (Identification, Weight?, Category+, Keyword* )>
It is better, but then we have to comply to the sequence of the children,
which is what I want to avoid ...
Any ideas, help please?
I wish you all a very nice day!
Greeting,
Albena Georgieva