Ricardo A Capurro wrote:
>
> so I would like to write it this way to increase
> readability
>
> <Contact>
> <last_name>Capurro</last_name>
> <first_name>Ricardo</first_name>
> <year_of_birth>1968</year_of_birth>
> </Contact>
>
> But if I use this XML idiom, perhaps I am getting a Contact element that don't
> agree with its definition,
>
> <!ELEMENT Contact (last_name,first_name,company?,year_of_birth)>
>
> because I am using white space between each of the elements that conform a
> Contact.
No, you'd be just fine. The parser would report the whitespace as being
"ignorable", or if you tell it not to bother (by setting the righ
option), it would simply skip them.
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Arnaud Le Hors - IBM Cupertino, XML Technology Group
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