DTD - IDREF

[lavanya Ananth]

It's me again. Pls rad thru the DTD below.

<! ELEMENT bookstore ( shipping+, book+, officesupplies+) >
<! ELEMENT shipping ( duration) >
<! ATTLIST shipping shipID ID #REQUIRED >
<! ELEMENT book ( title , author) >
<! ATTLIST book bookno ID #REQUIRED shippedBy IDREF #IMPLIED >
<! ELEMENT duration ( #PCDATA) >
<! ELEMENT title ( #PCDATA) >
<! ELEMENT author( #PCDATA) >

If i wanted to have an attribute for title , say ISBN which refers to book no, how do i specify it? Is the declaration below correct?

<! ATTLIST title ISBN IDREF #REQUIRED >

How does the parser know which ID the above decl references?

I am also assuming that a single element can have two attributes that are unique. How do we then use IDREF to refer to a particular unique attribute?


Thanks in Advance,
Lavanya

[Hari Vignesh Padmanaban]

Originally posted by lavanya Ananth:

If i wanted to have an attribute for title , say ISBN which refers to book no, how do i specify it? Is the declaration below correct?

<! ATTLIST title ISBN IDREF #REQUIRED >

It is perfect

How does the parser know which ID the above decl references?

I am also assuming that a single element can have two attributes that are unique. How do we then use IDREF to refer to a particular unique attribute?

According to the DTD specifications, there may be only ONE ID attribute for each element type

So I guess that the DTD parser would know which one to look for

Hope that helps
[ December 28, 2005: Message edited by: Hari Vignesh Padmanaban ]