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• Subject: RE: need a [ in an ATTLIST
• From: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 09:34:26 -0800
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At 05:03 PM 02/04/02 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
>> > <!ATTLIST myelement myattribute1 (value1|value2) "value[">
>> >
>
>Secondly, it's not obvious that the list of enumerated values is a "lexical
>constraint", though it would seem reasonable to read it that way.

I disagree.  Any validating parser should report a validity
error right here at this point per my reading of the spec. 
Having said this, there's no obvious reason why DTDs constrain
enumerated attribute-value lists to be NAMEs, that's just
by inheritance.  But that is what they do.  -Tim

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