Re: suggestion concerning [28] in the XML specification

At 09:13 AM 6/10/99 -0400, GignacDA@nswccd.navy.mil wrote:
>I have a suggestion concerning production [28] in the XML specification
>
>[28]  doctypedecl ::=  '<!DOCTYPE' S Name (S ExternalID)? S? ('['
>(markupdecl | PEReference | S)* ']' S?)? '>'
> 
>Production [28] by itself would imply that "<!DOCTYPE doc" and "<!DOCTYPE
>doc []>" are valid DOCTYPE
>declarations. However, these possibilities are precluded by the text

I think both of these are perfectly legal (if you put a '>' after the first),
so if the text precludes this as you say, that's a bug.  It's in the queue
for double-checking now. -Tim

Received on Thursday, 10 June 1999 23:25:12 UTC