[JDEV] Jabber DTD ...

[Julian Missig]

There's no decent way to convey the idea that an element should either
appear once or not at all *and* be in any order with the other elements.
This is the closest you can get in DTDs.

You might as well ignore the DTDs, though, I recently found out that
we've been doing them completely wrong with regard to namespaces and
that we really can't describe the stuff we're doing with namespaces in a
decent way with DTDs. We'll switch to Schemas soon.

Julian

On 03 Jun 2001 13:00:25 +0200, Max Horn wrote:
> At 4:43 Uhr -0700 03.06.2001, Scott Cote wrote:
> >Hello. I'm new to the Jabber dev list. I'm enjoying getting my feet wet
> >in the Jabber universe. To that end, I have a question regarding some
> >entries in the protocol DTD files.
> >
> >I've see elements that are formed similar to the following:
> >
> ><!ELEMENT foo (( a? | b? | c?)*)>
> >
> >What is the difference between that and the following?
> >
> ><!ELEMENT foo (( a | b | c)*)>
> >
> 
> I think there is no difference at all, only somebody liked it a bit 
> more complicated ;) But both regular expression yield the same.
> 
> 
> Just my believe of course, i await being proved wrong ;)
> 
> 
> Max
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