• From: "DuCharme, Robert" <DuCharmR@m...>
• To: "'Mallikarjuna Sangappa'" <malliks@r...>, xml-dev@i...
• Date: Mon, 26 Jul 1999 19:12:26 -0400

> Is the following correct?
> <!ELEMENT TYPE_OF_LOSS_CODE EMPTY>
> <!ATTLIST TYPE_OF_LOSS_CODE >

It is correct, but your second line is basically saying "here comes some
attribute definitions for the TYPE_OF_LOSS_CODE element type," and then it
doesn't have any. This is legal (see production 52 of the XML spec), and
would typically be used as a placeholder for where you're going to put the
attribute definitions, but wouldn't serve much purpose that I know of in a
production system. 

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