Re: XML Help needed

["Joe Pluta" <joepluta@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> From: Jon Paris
>
>  >> <!ELEMENT Product ( #PCDATA , Description , SellPrice  , Quantity?) >
>
> Nope - that doesn't change anything.  Same error message same spot.  The
> error is flagged as being the comma after #PCDATA and in WDSC it indicates
> it is missing a ).
>
> Maybe you can only have attributes as well as #PCDATA and can't have child
> elements.  I guess I'll have to dig back into the examples again.

Sorry, Jon, I didn't catch that.

PCDATA is always a little strange.  This will work for you:

<!ELEMENT Product ( #PCDATA | (Description , SellPrice  , Quantity?)*) >

This seems to be the only way to have children and character data, and it
technically means you can have multiple instances of either the PCDATA or
the other elements.

The vast majority of models I've seen always add a separate element for the
character data, or else they assign attributes to the element that contains
character data.

Joe