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DTD Example: <!ELEMENT br EMPTY>

In XML document:

<br />

Elements with Parsed Character Data
Elements with only parsed character data are
declared with #PCDATA inside the
parentheses:
<!ELEMENT element-name (#PCDATA)>

DTD Example:

<!ELEMENT To (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT From (#PCDATA)>

Elements with Data
Elements declared with the keyword ANY, can contain any combination of parsable data:

<!ELEMENT element-name ANY>

DTD Example:

<!ELEMENT E-mail (To,From,Subject,Body)>
<!ELEMENT To (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT From (#PCDATA)>
Elements with Children (sequences)
Elements with one or more children are
declared with the name of the children
elements inside the parentheses as:
<!ELEMENT element-name (child1)>
or
<!ELEMENT element-name (child1,child2,...)>

DTD Example:

<!ELEMENT E-mail (To,From,Subject,Body)>

When children are declared in a sequence separated by commas, the children must appear in the same sequence in the document. In a full declaration, the children
must also be declared.Children can have

 

children. The full declaration of the “E-mail” element is:

<!ELEMENT E-mail (To,From,Subject,Body)>
<!ELEMENT To (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT From (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Subject (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT Body (#PCDATA)>

Declaring Only One Occurrence of an Element

<!ELEMENT element-name (child-name)>

DTD Example:

<!ELEMENT color (Fill-Red)>

The example above declares that the child element “Fill-Red” must occur once, and only once inside the “color” element.

Declaring Minimum One Occurrence of an Element

<!ELEMENT element-name (child-name+)>

DTD Example:

<!ELEMENT color (Fill-Red+)>

The ‘+’ sign in the example above declares that the child element “Fill-Red” must occur one or more times inside the “color” element.

Declaring Zero or More Occurrences of an Element

<!ELEMENT element-name (childname*)>

DTD Example:

<!ELEMENT color (Fill-Red*)>

The ‘*’ sign in the example above declares that the child element “Fill-Red” can occur zero or more times inside the “color” element.

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