- From: Russell Steven Shawn O'Connor <roconnor@wronski.math.uwaterloo.ca>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jul 1997 13:40:01 -0400 (EDT)
- To: Paul Fidler <praf1@cam.ac.uk>
- cc: www-html@w3.org
On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Paul Fidler wrote:
> The HTML 4.0 DTD [2] says this about the HTML element:
>
> <!ENTITY % html.content "HEAD, (FRAMESET|BODY)">
> A | B
> Both A and B are permitted in any order
I'm pretty sure (FRAMESET|BODY) is an exclusive or. Only one of FRAMESET
or BODY can appear. This would make the description of the | character in
the HTML draft incorrect.
Softquad's SGML primer <http://www.softquad.com/sgmlinfo/primbody.html>
says:
In the name group (DOVE|GOOSE) the vertical bar means "or". Only one or
the other may appear.
--
Russell O'Connor | roconnor@uwaterloo.ca
<http://www.undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca/%7Eroconnor/>
"And truth irreversibly destroys the meaning of its own message"
-- Anindita Dutta, "The Paradox of Truth, the Truth of Entropy"
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