Question about introspect.dtd?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday 17 October 2008 12:00:11 Markku Savela wrote:
> Looking at
>
>   http://standards.freedesktop.org/dbus/1.0/introspect.dtd
>
> it has a line
>
>   <!ELEMENT interface (annotation*,method*,signal*,property*)>
>
> which means that in interface the subelements must appear in the
> listed order, you cannot write any <method> definitions after a
> <signal>. Why not be a bit more lenient, and write the above rule as
>
>   <!ELEMENT interface (annotation*,(method | signal)*,property*)>
> or
>   <!ELEMENT interface (annotation*,(method | signal | property)*)>
>
> allowing writing method and signal in any order?
>
> [I noticed this, because I was handed a bunch of hand written
> annotated introspect files, which didn't pass the DTD check due to
> member/signal ordering]

Forget the DTD. DTD simply can't represent the XML format we want to enforce.

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