- From: Holger Wahlen <wahlen@ph-cip.Uni-Koeln.DE>
- Date: Sat, 26 Jul 1997 01:07:47 +0200
- To: www-html@w3.org
Is there any difference between
(#PCDATA),
(#PCDATA)?,
(#PCDATA)+
and (#PCDATA)*
in an element content? I've just recently started to make
myself familiar with the SGML background of HTML, so my
picture of #PCDATA may be wrong, but I have the imagination
that this refers to something of arbitrary length, which
would mean that all four expressions would be equivalent. On
the other hand, I have found there are HTML elements (TITLE,
OPTION, TEXTAREA) that have (#PCDATA)* instead of simply
(#PCDATA) as their content, which makes me suspect they are
not quite the same. So, what's the right point of view?
Holger
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