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Secure XML: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption
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Secure XML: The New Syntax for Signatures and Encryption

by Donald E. Eastlake, Kitty Niles
July 2002
Intermediate to advanced
560 pages
11h 10m
English
Addison-Wesley Professional
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4.3. Element Type Declarations

Elements are the main structure of an XML document. An element is defined as a group of one or more subelements or subgroups, character data, EMPTY, or ANY. Element type declarations identify the names of elements, the nature of their content, and how to use them. They have the following generic syntax:

<!ELEMENT   elementName
						elementContents >

Sometimes the content is text. At other times, the content consists of other elements that are arranged in a certain order or used a certain number of times. The list of contents in an element type declaration is called the content model.

4.3.1. Element Structures

The element rules build a hierarchy of elements that describe how one element relates to another element. XML ...

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