Last time I taught pure ODD (last month, in Paris) someone pointed out to me that we have forgotten to remove @allowText from <content> and from the class att.repeatable. Unless someone comes up with a good reason why not, I propose to remove it tomorrow. We agreed back in November that <textNode> was all we needed.
Yup, IIRC we agreed to nuke it. I thought it provided DTD-writers an easy way to represent mixed content, and therefore has some value, but the consensus was it (or the equivalent, <mixedContent>) should go in favor of <textNode>. And, since I'm against DTDs in general, I don't really mind. Speaking of which, the following is to the tune of the first two verses of "Think of Me" from _Phantom of the Opera_. D-T-D, I'll think of you fondly, When we've said goodbye. Remember you once in a while - I promise you I'll try. When I find that, once again, I need To check my file is error free I will try to find a parser Old enough for thee.
Last time I taught pure ODD (last month, in Paris) someone pointed out to me that we have forgotten to remove @allowText from <content> and from the class att.repeatable.
Unless someone comes up with a good reason why not, I propose to remove it tomorrow. We agreed back in November that <textNode> was all we needed.
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Lou Burnard
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Syd Bauman