DTD - Element Declaration

• 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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