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In article <1990Nov21.210152.2631@maytag.waterloo.edu>, Gary Pianosi writes:

   I am able to import hand-edited files into Author/Editor without error,
   but when I try to validate the document, I get the error message:

	   "Validation Error:  Text not allowed here"

   wherever there is a new line between an end tag and a start tag.
   (I can delete these 'characters' to get rid of the error message, but
   there are too many of them.)  Strangely, no error is reported for new
   lines between adjacent start tags or end tags, even though text is not
   valid between the tags.  I should mention that the hand-edited files
   can be been validated using MARK-IT and the canonical output can be
   read into Author/Editor without any problems.

I've to reply to Gary directly (to <garyp@csg.uwaterloo.ca>, the
!@#$%^&* mailer didn't recognize itself as "csg.waterloo.edu), quoting
section 7.6.1 from SGML (with the amendment applied), but won't post
that for petty copyright violation reasons.

The problem can be reduced, I think, to the problem of the treatment
of Record End in this contrived example:

	<!element foo (bar+)>
	<!element bar (#PCDATA)>

     1	`<foo>'
     2	`<bar>'
     3	`caninus'
     4	`</bar>'
     5	`<bar>'
     6	`felinus'
     7	`</bar>'
     8	`</foo>'

(where ` signifies Record Start, ' Record End for clarity, line
numbers for reference, only)

According to section 7.6.1, this will be interpreted at the outer
(foo) level as:

     1	`<foo>'
     2	`<bar>...</bar>'
     5	`<bar>...</bar>'
     8	`</foo>'

Now, the RE in line 1 is clearly the first RE in the content of foo,
and the RE in line 5 is clearly the last RE in the content of foo.
According to said section, these are to be ignored.

The problem is the RE in line 2, and the question boils down to this:

	Is this RE recognized as /content/ or as /markup/?

I believe I understand this to be markup, and thus that it should be
ignored.  It seems that Gary's problems stem from some decision
amounting to viewing this as content, in which the RE would imply the
start of a bar element, in which a new bar element is illegal (see
amended note to section 11.2.4), or in which data content is not
valid.

What am I missing here?  (I'm sure it's something.)

I've read the spec several times, but won't claim that I understand
and remember every single thing, due to the high number of references
and other spaghetti-coding style writing.

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