XHTML Basic 1.1 DTD declares hr but it cannot be included in anyelement (PR#10006)

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Hello,

I've found that the DTD of XHTML Basic 1.1 declares de hr element, but it=
=20
doesn't appear in the content model of any element, and therefore it=20
cannot be used. A detailed explanation follows.

All the information bellow is based on the revision:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml-basic/xhtml-basic11.dtd
Revision:   $Id: xhtml-basic11.dtd,v 1.1 2007/07/20 15:00:12 jules Exp $

The XHTML DTD includes the "Presentation Module" which declares the=20
element "hr". See:

http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-pres-1.mod=20
http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-blkpres-1.mod

However, "hr" isn't in the content model of any element. For example, it=20
isn't in the content model of the element "body". The element "body" is=20
declared as:

(from http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-struct-1.mod)

<!ENTITY % body.content
      "( %Block.mix; )+"
>
<!ELEMENT %body.qname;  %body.content; >

The entity Block.mix is declared as:

(from http://www.w3.org/MarkUp/DTD/xhtml-basic11-model-1.mod)

<!ENTITY % Block.mix
      "%Heading.class;
       | %List.class;
       | %Block.class;
       %Misc.class;"
>

You can check that "hr" is not declared in any of these entities as it=20
should.

If it helps, the following web site maintained by me shows the information=
=20
of the DTD in a more human-friednly way. All the information was=20
extracted automatically from the DTD available today (Sep 15 2007):

http://www.it.uc3m.es/jaf/xhtmlpedia/basic-1.1/
http://www.it.uc3m.es/jaf/xhtmlpedia/basic-1.1/element-body.html
http://www.it.uc3m.es/jaf/xhtmlpedia/basic-1.1/element-hr.html

Regards,

Jes=FAs Arias Fisteus
Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain)






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