Re: HTML 4.0/SGML, (#PCDATA)* problem in TEXTAREA

In the time of 29 Jul 97:22:03, www-html@w3.org pronounced:

> wrong as documents that did not. I can't find anything that would
> recommend an error recovery mechanism in HTML 4.0, but I haven't read
> the whole spec. Like you, many people misread the earlier comment to be
> some form of rule..

Thanks for that clarification.  What we've decided to do for the 
purpose of using invalid documents is define a generic Pseudo-SGML 
rule:

<!ELEMENT name - O (#PCDATA)>
<!ATTLIST name
    (name  CDATA  #IMPLIED)* >

Where "name" is the corresponding SGML rule.

In our final representation of the document we'll simply ignore 
unrecognized elements [& their attributes] caught under this rule.  
It also allows validation to catchmore than one error at a time.
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Received on Wednesday, 30 July 1997 11:01:08 UTC