Mixed content not working for me

[Russell East]

You're right, it should have been
 <!ELEMENT   a  (#PCDATA|a+)>
but this is also incorrect according to both the standard
and AELFRED.  Curiously, MSXML passes it no problem.....

What I want is stuff like:
   <a>
      <a> text </a>
      <a>
         <a> text </a>
      </a>
      <a> text </a>
   </a>

but, I want to prevent this:
   <a>
      text
      <a> text </a>
   </a>
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Mary Holstege wrote:
> 
> Russell East writes:
> > How come the following doesn't work?
> >   <!ELEMENT   a   (#PCDATA|(a*)) >
> >
> > I basically want my element a to either form an hierarchy
> > *or* have some text data.
> >
> > But it seems I'm forced to have
> >   <!ELEMENT   a   (#PCDATA|a)* >
> >
> > which I don't really want at all.
> 
> Try this:
> 
> <!ELEMENT   a  (#PCDATA|a+)>
> 
> Yours is ambigious when you have nothing  -- is it a list of a's of length zero
> or is it a #PCDATA with a null string?
> 
> //Mary
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