Re: DTD to Schema converter

Hi Stanley,

> I am working on a converter to convert DTD declarations to Schema
> declarations. After reading the XML spec., I am still not clear
> what's the expected result for the following DTD declarations:
>    <!ELEMENT abc ANY>
> For this declaration, it does NOT have associated attribute type
> declarations with element type "abc".
>
> For a validating processor, does this mean:
>     1) element "abc" can have any attributes (i.e. wildcard attributes
> in Schema), or
>     2) element "abc" cannot have any attributes?

It means that element 'abc' cannot have any attributes. Element
declarations in DTDs only talk about the *content* of elements, unlike
complex type definitions that also talk about attributes. ANY content
is equivalent to a mixed complex type with a sequence of xs:any
wildcards that can occur any number of times.

> Note that the only thing I read in XML spec. is:
> All attributes for which no declaration has been read should be
> treated by a non-validating processor as if declared CDATA.

That's about the stuff that gets reported by non-validating processors
- ones that don't look at the DTD. DTDs don't support an 'any
attribute' wildcard.

Cheers,

Jeni

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Jeni Tennison
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