I have work to do, but thanks for re-stating what I said in the below mail.
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From: Jonathan Borden [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 07, 2000 3:32 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Empty data, tags and XML
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> > The tag is mandatory if the document is being validated against a DTD.
In
> > that case you can use the empty element tag ex. <DATE/>
"
To be clear, mandatory is *your* word. The question was regarding the
validity of omitting an empty element. Tags are not mandatory merely because
the document is being validated against a DTD, rather if and only if the DTD
declares the tag as mandatory.
> Yes, you can also change the sequence of the elements, number of
> occurrences, etc. in the DTD, but if the element is declared as a
mandatory
> element in the DTD, the tag must be present, whether or not it contains
data
> is irrelevant.
>
>
>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > The tag is mandatory if the document is being validated against a DTD.
In
> > that case you can use the empty element tag ex. <DATE/>
> >
> Actually in a DTD one can specify an optional element
(DATE?,TIME?,PLACE).
>
> Jonathan Borden
> The Open Healthcare Group
> http://www.openhealth.org
>
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