Mixed content not working for me

Russell East (reast@esri.com)
Wed, 10 Dec 1997 08:35:41 -0800


How come the following doesn't work?
<!ELEMENT a (#PCDATA|(a*)) >

I basically want my element a to either form an hierarchy
*or* have some text data.

But it seems I'm forced to have
<!ELEMENT a (#PCDATA|a)* >

which I don't really want at all.

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