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At 12:40 04/01/2002 -0500, John Cowan wrote:
>Sean McGrath wrote:
>
>>Can anybody point me to a way of expressing an open content model with
>>RelaxNG?
>>I.e. no restictions on contents of element Foo other than that the
>>content of Foo is well formed. A bit like ANY is XML 1.0 but without
>
>>the restriction of having to declare all element types.
>
>
>No problem: you just need to say what you want. Such an element
>has a content model consisting of:
>
> 1) any number of attributes with text content and
> 2) any number of sub-elements with model ANY interleaved with
> 3) arbitrary text.
>
>In NX syntax that would be:
>
>ANY = attribute * {text}* &
> element * {ANY}* &
> text
>
>to which we can add a concrete element for testing:
>
>start = element catchbin {ANY}
>
>which taken jointly translate to standard syntax thus:
>
><?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
><grammar xmlns="http://relaxng.org/ns/structure/0.9";>
> <define name="ANY">
> <interleave>
> <zeroOrMore>
> <attribute>
> <anyName/>
> <text/>
> </attribute>
> </zeroOrMore>
> <zeroOrMore>
> <element>
> <anyName/>
> <ref name="ANY"/>
> </element>
> </zeroOrMore>
> <text/>
> </interleave>
> </define>
> <start>
> <element name="catchbin">
> <ref name="ANY"/>
> </element>
> </start>
></grammar>
>
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