Subject: Re: DTD element ordering From: SNOJOW@MVS.sas.com (Jim Ward) Date: Mon, 03 Apr 1995 13:05:07 -0700 (PDT)

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In article <1995Mar28.225425.29439@rsg1.er.usgs.gov>,
peter@geochange.er.usgs.gov (Peter N. Schweitzer) writes:
 
>I have a DTD with an element like this:
>
>
>
>This means that NAME must contain A and C, and may contain any number
>of B's.  Further, it means that the elements A, B, and C can occur
>in any order (because I used '&' rather than ',' to separate them).
>However, I observe (using sgmls 1.1.91) that if B is repeated, all
>occurrences of B must be together, i.e. I get errors from
>
>
>a
>b
>c
>b again
> 
>
>Is there any way to fix my element declaration so that the elements
>of type B can occur in any order just like the elements A and C?
 
Well, my knowledge of SGML is very limited, but it seems to me that
a fairly simple, albeit very possibly ambiguous, solution is:
 
  
 
If this really is ambiguous, I'd appreciate a succinct explanation as
to why!
 
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