XML Spec error?

[Tim Bray]

At 11:15 PM 3/31/98 -0800, Andrew n marshall wrote:
>
>In section 3.3:
>
>"For interoperability, writers of DTDs may choose to provide at most one 
>attribute-list declaration for a given element type, at most one attribute 
>definition for a given attribute name, and at least one attribute 
>definition in each attribute-list declaration."
>
...
>As it is currently, it seems to imply 

Read it more carefully.  It says that while the following are legal
in XML, they will be rejected by pre-TC SGML systems, so if you care
about such systems, you shouldn't use them:

<!ATTLIST e a1 CDATA #IMPLIED> 
<!-- warning applies from here down -->
<!ATTLIST e a2 CDATA #IMPLIED> <!-- 2 attlists for type "e" -->
<!ATTLIST e a2 IDREF #REQUIRED> <!-- 2 defs for attr "a2" -->
<!ATTLIST e > <!-- empty attlist -->

Need another annotation here... -T.


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