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Richard L. Goerwitz III wrote: > 1) What if I use an element in a content model and I don't > declare it? >From clause 3.2: # At user option, an XML processor may issue a warning when a # declaration mentions an element type for which # no declaration is provided, but this is not an error. > 2) What if I declare an element in a content model that I > don't use in any content model (and the element isn't the > root element)? I know of no context, XML or otherwise, where it is an outright error to declare something and not use it. At most, that provokes a warning. We *mention* "our vast nuclear arsenal" so that we won't have to *use* it. -- Douglas Hofstadter on the use/mention distinction -- John Cowan http://www.ccil.org/~cowan cowan@c... You tollerday donsk? N. You tolkatiff scowegian? Nn. You spigotty anglease? Nnn. You phonio saxo? Nnnn. Clear all so! 'Tis a Jute.... (Finnegans Wake 16.5) xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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