Arjun Ray wrote:
> ... until the time someone innocently leaves the title blank.
>
> : <section>
> : <para>The laundry basket has a long and fascinating history...
>
> This throws a validation error (<title> is not omissible if the element
> has no content.)
By virtue of the fact that the start tag is omissable, the title *is*
required. Tag omission in the situation that you describe above is
orthogonal to the desire to create invalid data.
On a deeper level, perhaps a title is the primary indication that a new
section has started, otherwise the markup people might mark every para
as a different section with a blank title...
> Some people may try to "fix" this kind of problem - sometimes you really
> can't think of a title - with pernicious mixed content:
>
> <!ELEMENT section - - (#PCDATA,para+) >
Now you're basing the structure on what you saw in the data - this whole
discussion is premised on the idea that the analysis has been carried
out and the title *is* required. My example provides the means to
support the structure economically.
> | I'm surprised that there's so little enthusiasm for this -
>
> We all learn the hard way...
Just keep practising - I'm sure you'll get the hang of it some day.
--
Regards,
Marcus Carr email:
___________________________________________________________________
Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au
___________________________________________________________________
"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Einstein
