XML Spec error?

Andrew n marshall (amarshal@usc.edu)
Tue, 31 Mar 1998 23:15:28 -0800


In section 3.3:

"For interoperability, writers of DTDs may choose to provide at most one
attribute-list declaration for a given element type, at most one attribute
definition for a given attribute name, and at least one attribute
definition in each attribute-list declaration."

Should this read:

"...at most one attribute definition for a given attribute name in an
attribute-list declaration,..."

As it is currently, it seems to imply that no two elements in a DTD can
have attributes of the same name, which is obviously wrong. For example:

<!ELEMENT div ANY>
<!ATTLIST div
class NMTOKENS #IMPLIED
>
<!ELEMENT span ANY>
span
class NMTOKENS #IMPLIED
>

should be legal.

Andrew n marshall
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