comments on the 990421 drafr of the XSL specification

Anders,
The following questions/comments came in to the XSL editors list. 

Since it deals with the DTD, I would like you to evaluate it and formulate
a response. We have 3 choices:
  1.) You can formulate a response and send it directly to
      GinacDA with a copy to the xsl-editors list.
  2.) You can formulate a response and send it to me, I will
      remove your name and send it as if it were my response.
  3.) You can decide we should not respond.

In any event, I would like a note indicating wheter we neet to fix the
spec, so I can track changes.
---SDeach

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>Subject: comments on the 990421 drafr of the XSL specification
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>The following comments pertain to the XML DTD in Appendix A "DTD for XSL
>Formatting Objects" in the W3C working draft of the "Extensible Stylesheet
>Language Specification" dated April 21, 1999
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-xsl-19990421). The numbers in square brackets
>refer to the productions in the current XML specification
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) defining XML syntax.
>
>1. [5} "Name" and [45] "elementdecl" which define the ELEMENT declaration in
>XML do not allow element types to be defined in terms of a name group.
>Accordingly, the following ELEMENT declaration 
>
><!ELEMENT (fo:table-header | fo:table-footer | fo:table-body)
>  (
>    fo:table-row+
>  | fo:table-cell+
>  )
>>
>
>must be rewritten as three separate ELEMENT declarations
>
><!ELEMENT fo:table-header
>  (
>    fo:table-row+
>  | fo:table-cell+
>  )
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:table-footer
>  (
>    fo:table-row+
>  | fo:table-cell+
>  )
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:table-body
>  (
>    fo:table-row+
>  | fo:table-cell+
>  )
>>
>
>2. [5] "Name" and [52] "AttlistDecl" which define the ATTLIST  declaration
>in XML do not allow the attributes of element types to be defined in terms
>of a name group. Accordingly, the following ATTLIST declaration 
>
><!ATTLIST (fo:table-header | fo:table-footer | fo:table-body)
>    %common-absolute-position-properties;
>    %common-aural-properties;
>    %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;     
>    id  CDATA  #IMPLIED
>>
>
>must be rewritten as three separate ATTLIST declarations
>
><!ATTLIST fo:table-header
>    %common-absolute-position-properties;
>    %common-aural-properties;
>    %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;
>    id  CDATA  #IMPLIED
>>
>
><!ATTLIST fo:table-footer
>    %common-absolute-position-properties;
>    %common-aural-properties;
>    %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;
>    id  CDATA  #IMPLIED
>>
>
><!ATTLIST fo:table-body
>    %common-absolute-position-properties;
>    %common-aural-properties;
>    %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;
>    id  CDATA  #IMPLIED
>>
>
>3. [45] "elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", and [51] "Mixed" require that
>content models containing the "#PCDATA" content token along with other
>content tokens must be of the form 
>
>(#PCDATA | a | b | c| . . . )*
>
>Accordingly, the occurrence indicator "+" in five ELEMENT declarations 
>
><!ELEMENT fo:inline-sequence (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  | %block-level;
>  )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:footnote-citation (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:bidi-override (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:simple-link (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  | %block-level;
>  )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-toggle (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  )+
>>
>
>must changed to "*" as follows
>
><!ELEMENT fo:inline-sequence (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  | %block-level;
>  )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:footnote-citation (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:bidi-override (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:simple-link (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  | %block-level;
>  )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-toggle (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  )*
>>
>
>4. As noted previously, [45] "elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", and [51]
>"Mixed" require that content models containing the "#PCDATA" content token
>along with other content tokens must be of the form 
>
>(#PCDATA | a | b | c| . . . )*
>
>The following two ELEMENT declarations 
>
><!ELEMENT fo:block (
>  fo:first-line-marker?,
>    (
>      #PCDATA
>    | %inlines;
>    | %block-level;
>    )+
>  )
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-properties (
>    fo:multi-property-set+,
>    (
>      #PCDATA
>    | %inlines;
>    | %block-level;
>    )+
>  )
>>
>
>have content models of the forms 
>
>(z1?, (#PCDATA | y | x | w | . . . )
>
>(z2+, (#PCDATA | y | x | w | . . . )
>
>respectively. These two content models will have to be rewritten in the form
>of
>
>(#PCDATA | a | b | c| . . . )*
> 
>5. [45] "elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", [47] "children" and [51] "Mixed"
>do not permit the inclusions or exclusions exceptions of SGML in XML. The
>content models of the three ELEMENT declarations
>
><!ELEMENT fo:float (
>    %block-level;
>  )+                      -(%out-of-lines)
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:footnote (
>    fo:footnote-citation?,
>    (%block-level;)+
>  )                       -(%out-of-lines)
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-case (
>    #PCDATA
>  | %inlines;
>  | %block-level;
>  )+                            +(fo:multi-toggle)
>>
>
>will have to be rewritten so as to model their acceptable content without
>resorting to exclusions or inclusions exceptions. 
>
>Also note that the "%out-of-line" general entity references are not
>terminated by ";" as required by [68] "EntityRef". Finally, the "+"
>following the last content model above must be "*" in accordance with [45]
>"elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", and [51] "Mixed". 
>
>
>

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