- From: Stephen Deach <sdeach@Adobe.COM>
- Date: Tue, 18 May 1999 11:14:34 -0700
- To: GignacDA@nswccd.navy.mil, xsl-editors@w3.org, WestbrookEL@nswccd.navy.mil, JunodLJ@nswccd.navy.mil
- Cc: GarnerFJ@nswccd.navy.mil, LeBeauRP@nswccd.navy.mil
GignacDA,
I have asked the person that constructed the DTD to review your comments.
Thank you for you input.
-SDeach
At 13:43 1999-05-18 -0400, GignacDA@nswccd.navy.mil wrote:
>The following comments pertain to the XML DTD in Appendix A "DTD for XSL
>Formatting Objects" in the W3C working draft of the "Extensible Stylesheet
>Language Specification" dated April 21, 1999
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/1999/WD-xsl-19990421). The numbers in square brackets
>refer to the productions in the current XML specification
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml) defining XML syntax.
>
>1. [5} "Name" and [45] "elementdecl" which define the ELEMENT declaration in
>XML do not allow element types to be defined in terms of a name group.
>Accordingly, the following ELEMENT declaration
>
><!ELEMENT (fo:table-header | fo:table-footer | fo:table-body)
> (
> fo:table-row+
> | fo:table-cell+
> )
>>
>
>must be rewritten as three separate ELEMENT declarations
>
><!ELEMENT fo:table-header
> (
> fo:table-row+
> | fo:table-cell+
> )
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:table-footer
> (
> fo:table-row+
> | fo:table-cell+
> )
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:table-body
> (
> fo:table-row+
> | fo:table-cell+
> )
>>
>
>2. [5] "Name" and [52] "AttlistDecl" which define the ATTLIST declaration
>in XML do not allow the attributes of element types to be defined in terms
>of a name group. Accordingly, the following ATTLIST declaration
>
><!ATTLIST (fo:table-header | fo:table-footer | fo:table-body)
> %common-absolute-position-properties;
> %common-aural-properties;
> %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;
> id CDATA #IMPLIED
>>
>
>must be rewritten as three separate ATTLIST declarations
>
><!ATTLIST fo:table-header
> %common-absolute-position-properties;
> %common-aural-properties;
> %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;
> id CDATA #IMPLIED
>>
>
><!ATTLIST fo:table-footer
> %common-absolute-position-properties;
> %common-aural-properties;
> %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;
> id CDATA #IMPLIED
>>
>
><!ATTLIST fo:table-body
> %common-absolute-position-properties;
> %common-aural-properties;
> %common-border-padding-and-background-properties;
> id CDATA #IMPLIED
>>
>
>3. [45] "elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", and [51] "Mixed" require that
>content models containing the "#PCDATA" content token along with other
>content tokens must be of the form
>
>(#PCDATA | a | b | c| . . . )*
>
>Accordingly, the occurrence indicator "+" in five ELEMENT declarations
>
><!ELEMENT fo:inline-sequence (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> | %block-level;
> )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:footnote-citation (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:bidi-override (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:simple-link (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> | %block-level;
> )+
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-toggle (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> )+
>>
>
>must changed to "*" as follows
>
><!ELEMENT fo:inline-sequence (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> | %block-level;
> )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:footnote-citation (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:bidi-override (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:simple-link (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> | %block-level;
> )*
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-toggle (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> )*
>>
>
>4. As noted previously, [45] "elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", and [51]
>"Mixed" require that content models containing the "#PCDATA" content token
>along with other content tokens must be of the form
>
>(#PCDATA | a | b | c| . . . )*
>
>The following two ELEMENT declarations
>
><!ELEMENT fo:block (
> fo:first-line-marker?,
> (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> | %block-level;
> )+
> )
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-properties (
> fo:multi-property-set+,
> (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> | %block-level;
> )+
> )
>>
>
>have content models of the forms
>
>(z1?, (#PCDATA | y | x | w | . . . )
>
>(z2+, (#PCDATA | y | x | w | . . . )
>
>respectively. These two content models will have to be rewritten in the form
>of
>
>(#PCDATA | a | b | c| . . . )*
>
>5. [45] "elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", [47] "children" and [51] "Mixed"
>do not permit the inclusions or exclusions exceptions of SGML in XML. The
>content models of the three ELEMENT declarations
>
><!ELEMENT fo:float (
> %block-level;
> )+ -(%out-of-lines)
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:footnote (
> fo:footnote-citation?,
> (%block-level;)+
> ) -(%out-of-lines)
>>
>
><!ELEMENT fo:multi-case (
> #PCDATA
> | %inlines;
> | %block-level;
> )+ +(fo:multi-toggle)
>>
>
>will have to be rewritten so as to model their acceptable content without
>resorting to exclusions or inclusions exceptions.
>
>Also note that the "%out-of-line" general entity references are not
>terminated by ";" as required by [68] "EntityRef". Finally, the "+"
>following the last content model above must be "*" in accordance with [45]
>"elementdecl", [46] "contentspec", and [51] "Mixed".
>
>
>
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