On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, James Mitchell wrote:
> Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 23:34:05 -0400
> From: James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> Subject: RE: Validator DTD
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> Yes, sorry to bother, I was just thinking about readability sake.....but I’m
> just not expert with xml parsing and validation.
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> Thanks for the input.
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In Servlet 2.3, we adopted the convention of documenting the elements in
alphabetical order, instead of in some pseudo-hierarchical order. Do you
think it would improve readability if we did that in the Struts-based
DTDs?
> James Mitchell
> Software Engineer\Struts Evangelist
> Struts-Atlanta, the "Open Minded Developer Network"
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Craig
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Craig R. McClanahan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Friday, August 09, 2002 11:12 PM
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> > Subject: Re: Validator DTD
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> > On Fri, 9 Aug 2002, James Mitchell wrote:
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> > > Date: Fri, 9 Aug 2002 22:08:45 -0400
> > > From: James Mitchell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > > To: Struts Developers List <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > > Subject: Validator DTD
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> > > While browsing through the Validator DTD, I noticed that the ‘formset’
> > > element, which declares child elements ‘constant’ and ‘form’ was placed
> > > between the ‘constant’ and ‘form’ elements (position in file).
> > >
> > > I’m not sure what impact (if any) this has on xml validation (no pun
> > > intended), but I thought I would mention it.
> > >
> > > I’m attaching a patch, in case someone thinks its necessary.
> > >
> >
> > This should not matter at all. The allowed subelement order is defined by
> > the <!ELEMENT> declaration of the parent element, not the syntactic order
> > in the DTD. And subelements can be used in more than one parent element
> > (like <set-property> is for struts-config.xml files), so you couldn't rely
> > on element order even if you wanted to.
> >
> > Craig
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