Hubert Holtz wrote:
But another sect inside the third has to be invalid!
So, how can i limit the depth of elements inside a dtd?
There is no way to do it in a DTD.
As a rule, any production XML system must provide some form of
validation application that enforces all of the business rules defined
by the document type. A DTD is an intentionally simple syntactic
constraint specification--there are many potential business rules that
cannot be defined using DTD syntax. The same is true for XML Schema or
any other declarative constraint language.
It's certainly easy to write an XSLT style sheet that will check these
sorts of constraints, e.g:
<xsl:template match="//section/section/section/section">
<xsl:message>+++ ERROR: Sections may only be nested at most three deep.
<xsl:call-template name="show-ancestry"/></xsl:message>
</xsl:template>
For a more generic solution, you might find SchemaTron useful
(http://www.ascc.net/xml/resource/schematron/schematron.html)
Cheers,
Eliot
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