Your XML file and the Dtd is correct . Your dtd correctly says that there will be a name tag inside the content tag. So the parser is correctly not complaining.
Enjoy. Anish -----Original Message----- From: Amedeo Farello [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, August 30, 2001 8:55 AM To: xerces-j-user Subject: DTD validation Hi, I have just started working with DTDs and I feel I am getting strange results from validation. Since I am not an XML expert, I hope someone can help. I will use a minimal example: given the following 'test.dtd': <?xml encoding="UTF-8"?> <!ELEMENT container (content)> <!ELEMENT content (name)> <!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)> and the following 'test.xml': <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE container SYSTEM "test.dtd"> <container> <name>Cat</name> <content> <name>Dog</name> </content> </container> I would expect, from what I have understood about DTDs (which could not be enough, I admit) that a validating parser should raise an exception indicating the presence of a <name> element outside of a <content> element. Instead Xerces parses such a file without problems. I have tried inserting unknown tags and they are correctly refused, so I believe the parser is using the right DTD file. Besides, if the DTD file is not where it should be, the parser complains. I am using Xerces 1.4.2 and SAX2. All error handling is perfectly functional (I've done a number of tests), it's just that the parser seem to find this construct correct. Am I wrong to believe that my example should be considered invalid? Thanks in advance for any help. Amedeo --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
