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Re: [xml-dev] Newbie question:DTD problem(#PCDATA)

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Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Newbie question:DTD problem(#PCDATA)
From: Joe English <jenglish@flightlab.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Oct 2002 09:03:38 -0800
Cc: "Allen Chu" <achu@dscs.com>
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Allen Chu wrote:
>
>    I have a SGML DTD like "<!Element bio(#PCDATA|footnote)+>". However,
> XML doesn't like the #PCDATA and "+" combination. Is there an equivalent
> for this in XML DTD? Thanks in advance.

Just change the '+' to a '*'.  This is legal in XML, and
is completely equivalent to the original since #PCDATA
is inherently optional.

--Joe English

  jenglish@flightlab.com

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