>John Cowan scripsit:
> > <!ENTITY % paracontent "(%text; | %list; | (table , tabnote*) |
figure)+" >
>
> > This works fine in SGML. XML does not like it. For XML versions of the
> > DTD, we had to take the parens out and change the , to |.
> I am willing to bet that "%text;" expands to some choice of elements and
> #PCDATA, and XML can only cope with #PCDATA in the very limited frame
> "(#PCDATA | element1 | element2 ...)", no extra parens or commas allowed.
Exactly. But I can see where someone with an SGML DTD background (like me,
for instance) might initially try use this construct out of habit in an XML
DTD -- until of course it fails to validate in XML and requires debugging.
:)
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Doug Rudder
