[topicmapmail] Fragmented XTM for web metadata, and some ontology?

Peter P. Jones ppj@concept67.fsnet.co.uk
Sun, 29 Jun 2003 22:57:14 +0100


On 29 Jun 2003 at 17:31, Murray Altheim wrote:

> > 
> > The content model in the DTD would have to become
> > <!ELEMENT resourceData ANY >
> > 
> > Ick.
> 
> No, that's a common misunderstanding. "ANY" means any declared
> element, not any markup. That would mean that any declared XTM element
> could appear anywhere within an occurrence, which would be only partly
> as bad as allowing any markup whatsoever. Absent a schema,
> interpretation is pretty much a guess.

Right, but there's nothing to stop me adding a DOCTYPE to the 
instance to declare entities. Then any would mean ANY.

> 
> Murray
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