DTD question

[DuCharme, Robert]

> Is the following correct?
> <!ELEMENT TYPE_OF_LOSS_CODE EMPTY>
> <!ATTLIST TYPE_OF_LOSS_CODE >

It is correct, but your second line is basically saying "here comes some
attribute definitions for the TYPE_OF_LOSS_CODE element type," and then it
doesn't have any. This is legal (see production 52 of the XML spec), and
would typically be used as a placeholder for where you're going to put the
attribute definitions, but wouldn't serve much purpose that I know of in a
production system. 

Bob DuCharme       www.snee.com/bob       <bob@  
snee.com>  see www.snee.com/bob/xmlann for "XML:
The Annotated Specification" from Prentice Hall.

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