Re: DTD Question.

Terry Allen (terry@ora.com)
Wed, 9 Aug 1995 06:25:33 -0700


Good question; the answer is that A is excluded from the content
model of A by an "inclusion exception":

<!ELEMENT A - - %A.content -(A)>
<!ATTLIST A
HREF %URI #IMPLIED
NAME %linkName #IMPLIED
%linkExtraAttributes;
%SDAPREF; "<Anchor: #AttList>"
>

(that's the -(A)).

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