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So just to be completely clear on this, if a DTD allows it, then something
like this would be legal?:
<node>yada yada yada
<node> blah blah blah </node>
etc. </node>
or, in xml:
<!ELEMENT node (node+) >
?
Thanks,
David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@textuality.com]
> Sent: Monday, January 20, 2003 0:42
> To: David LeBlanc
> Cc: Xml-Dev@Lists. Xml. Org
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Element content
>
>
> David LeBlanc wrote:
> > A question has arisen about element content. I'm reasonably
> sure I've read
> > that it's illegal for an element to contain itself either directly or
> > indirectly. Is this correct, and if so, can someone point me to
> the relevant
> > section of the XML Recommendation please?
>
> Perfectly legal, happens all the time. Now *entities* can't contain
> themselves, but that's a different kettle of markup -Tim
>
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