Hi Lynne, Thanks for spending so much time on this and I'm sorry to bug you again.
I'm afraid I'm still a bit lost though. All my 'other' attributes are already #IMPLIED. I tried changing the NMTOKENS attribute to #REQUIRED (from #IMPLIED) but this didn't make any difference. Any suggestions? Thanks, Daniel Daniel Osborn | Usability Engineer - Technical Writer | TomTom | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | +31 (0) 20 8500 934 office -----Original Message----- From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, November 01, 2006 9:50 PM To: Daniel Osborn; [email protected] Subject: RE: XML roundtripping - attributes with more than one value Daniel, You seem to have stumbled on a rather bizarre FM bug. Consider the following XML document: <!DOCTYPE test [ <!ELEMENT test (bug)> <!ATTLIST test test NMTOKENS #REQUIRED> <!ELEMENT bug EMPTY> <!ATTLIST bug test NMTOKENS #REQUIRED other NMTOKENS "xxx" > ]> <test test="cat dog"> <bug test="rose daisy"/> </test> It is reasonable to expect the test attribute of the test element to be treated the same way as the test attribute of the bug element. However, the attribute on test is interpreted as two strings while that on bug as only one. Furthermore, the significant difference seems to be the definition of the other attribute. If the definition of that attribute is removed, bug's test attribute is processed correctly. The order of the two attribute definitions in the declaration does not matter. If the default value of other is changed to #IMPLIED or #REQUIRED, then test imports correctly. I've tested on Windows in FM 7.2p158 and 7.1b023. --Lynne At 06:33 AM 10/26/2006, Daniel Osborn wrote: >Does this mean that I should change the attribute type in the DTD to >NMTOKENS? (At the moment it's CDATA.) I tried this but nothing changed. >Have I done the wrong thing? Daniel, Yes, you want the attribute type in the DTD to be NMTOKENS. And,I have no idea if you've done the wrong thing! --Lynne Lynne A. Price Text Structure Consulting, Inc. Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, and training [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.txstruct.com voice/fax: (510) 583-1505 cell phone: (510) 421-2284 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
