Repeating attribute specifications

[David Schach]

See Section 3.1 Start and End Tags

	Validity Constraint - Unique Att Spec:

	No attribute may appear more than once in the same start-tag.

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Richard Light [SMTP:richard at light.demon.co.uk]
> Sent:	Wednesday, June 11, 1997 4:55 AM
> To:	xml-dev at ic.ac.uk
> Subject:	Repeating attribute specifications
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Is there anything in the XML spec which corresponds to the SGML
> stricture that "there can only be one attribute specification for each
> attribute definition", i.e. that you can't have repeated attribute
> specifications within a single start-tag?  
> 
> If not, XML will allow e.g.
> 
> <person ROLE="author" ROLE="designer">
> 
> while SGML won't.  Which would be a 'for compatibility' issue.
> 
> Richard Light
> SGML and Museum Information Consultancy
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