Goldfarb dancing on a pin head

Ian Hickson wrote to <www-html@w3.org> on 9 January 2003 in
"HTML or XHTML - why do you use it?"
(<mid:Pine.LNX.4.21.0301091336550.24442-100000@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>):

> On Wed, 8 Jan 2003, Peter Foti (PeterF) wrote:
[...]
>> <sgmlcode><foo>Hello <bar>bar</foo></bar></sgmlcode>
>
> This is invalid SGML.

It would seem to be invalid at first glance.  I believe, however, that
the following declarations make the instance valid.

<!ELEMENT sgmlcode - - (foo, bar) >
<!ELEMENT foo      O O (#PCDATA)  >
<!ELEMENT bar      - - (foo)      >

Peter intended to imply those declarations, shurely?!

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Etan Wexler <mailto:ewexler@stickdog.com>
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