Basic HTML version of Foils prepared August 1 99

Foil 18 DTD - Element Declaration

From Advanced XML and its applications CPS714 Computational Science Information Track -- July 7 99. by Lukasz Beca
Element declaration indicates the element's type and its content
The content:
  • element content - only other elements
  • mixed content - other elements and character data
  • `EMPTY' content - element is empty
  • `ANY' content
Example:
<!ELEMENT thing (#PCDATA|container)>
<!ELEMENT container (#PCDATA,(thing)*)>
where PCDATA stands for parsed character data

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