Re: Personnel Element?

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From: Michael Lake (mikel_at_speleonics.com.au)
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Richard Knapp wrote:
> My current DTD has the following elements:
> <!ELEMENT Person (Role | Comment)*>
> <!ATTLIST Person
> name CDATA #IMPLIED
> PID CDATA #IMPLIED>
>
> <!ELEMENT Role EMPTY>
> <!ATTLIST Role
> job (CDATA|Book|Sketch|Tape|Instrument|FrontSight|BackSight|Inventory|Other) #IMPLIED>
>
> <!ELEMENT Personnel (Person+)>
 
> However while reading in COMPASS data I ran across a problem.
> There is no guaranteed method to split up survey team members.....
> The field is free form so could use "," or ";" or

This will be common.

> <!ELEMENT Personnel (Person* | PCDATA)>
> This allows the more descriptive first way and ... legacy data.

I agree. That way it will be easier for authors of software to write parsers
that just transform their `free-form persons-field data' in to a single valid
XML element. Later versions of their survey software can implement more detail
once they know that there is an XML container to handle per-person data.

Mike 

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