Is this invalid?

[Richard L. Goerwitz]

Richard Tobin wrote:
> 
> Consider:
> 
>  <!DOCTYPE foo [
>  <!ELEMENT foo ANY>
>  <!ATTLIST foo a NMTOKEN "x">
>  <!ATTLIST foo a NMTOKEN "*">
>  ]>
>  <foo/>

This is valid.  Duplicate ATTLIST decls are okay.  If a particular attribute
such as "a"
is declared more than once, the first declaration holds.  Note that <foo/>
elicits a warning
from some validators, because it uses the special empty-tag syntax, without
having been ex-
plicitly declared EMPTY (one of those "for interoperability" constraints).

If you have questions about such things, often you can just run some sample
text through
our (STG's) validator, http://www.stg.brown.edu/service/xmlvalid/.  Its
output is pretty
much self-explanatory.

Here's what it says when I paste in the above document instance:

================================================================================================

Validation Results for [user-supplied text]

A list of warning messages follows:

line 4, [user-supplied text]: 
    warning (652): element has more than one attlist declaration: foo 
line 4, [user-supplied text]: 
    warning (581): discarding duplicate attribute definition: a 
line 6, [user-supplied text]: 
    warning (1106): empty-tag syntax used for element not declared with
EMPTY content model: foo 

================================================================================================

Document validates OK.

================================================================================================

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