From: Martin Sevior (msevior@mccubbin.ph.unimelb.edu.au)
Date: Sun Apr 21 2002 - 23:18:17 EDT
If someone volenteers to update our ancient DTD written by Sam TH that
would be great!
However for developmental purposes I don't think we should feel
constrained to stick to it.
Cheers
Martin
On Sun, 21 Apr 2002, Rui Miguel Silva Seabra wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-04-21 at 16:03, Karl Ove Hufthammer wrote:
> > Rui Miguel Silva Seabra <rms@1407.org> wrote in
> > > > This is an IE bug, if you're talking about Microsoft's
> > > bugzilla, go ahead :)
> > No, it's not. I have test three different XML parsers and all
> > report the same error. I have also studied the DTD, and *has*
> > incorrect syntax. You don't have to believe me; I encourage you to
> > check with the official XML specification yourself. Here's the
> > relevant section <URL: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#elemdecls >:
>
> That's where I've looked at.
>
> >
> > [45] elementdecl ::= '<!ELEMENT' S Name S contentspec S? '>' [VC: Unique Element Type Declaration]
> > [46] contentspec ::= 'EMPTY' | 'ANY' | Mixed | children
> >
> > And here's the relevant section from the 'DTD':
> > <!ELEMENT iw CDATA>
> > As you can see, 'contentspec' must be 'EMTPY', 'ANY', Mixed or
> > children. And no, Mixed doesn't include 'CDATA'. A correct element
> > type declaration could be:
> > <!ELEMENT iw (#PCDATA)>
> or (CDATA) ?
>
> I have to confess I didn't notice the parenthesis were mandatory. So ok,
> this is bug.
>
> > But this doesn't fix the numerous other syntax errors in the DTD,
> > nor that the DTD doesn't define some of the elements used in
> > current AbiWord documents.
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> This is way more serious! However, since we're changing the document
> format for the next version, it's very important to correct this in
> future versions, and less important to correct it for the current dtd.
>
> Hugs, rms
>
> --
> + No matter how much you do, you never do enough -- unknown
> + Whatever you do will be insignificant,
> | but it is very important that you do it -- Ghandi
> + So let's do it...?
>
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