Arjun Ray scripsit:

>    (1) Token or not
>    (2) If token, single or multiple
>    (3) If token, referential or not
>    (4) In any case, subject to data content notation or not

But if multiple tokens, then the data content notation should apply
to each token, *not* to the entire list of tokens.  That's my point.

Also we need lexical types TOKEN and TOKENS, not just NMTOKEN(S).

>  This would be radically changing the purpose of notation declarations,
>  which is associating a local document specific name with an external
>  identifier, the latter being a formal means of "stating" a concept.  

I agree this is unnecessary if you allow TOKENS as a lexical type.

>    <!ENTITY % foo  ' A | B | C' >
>    <!ENTITY % bar  ', D, E' >
>    <!ENTITY % quux  '%foo; %bar;' >
>  
>    <!ATTLIST (%quux)  blort CDATA #IMPLIED>

What is the difference between | and , separators?  The only one that
makes sense to me is | (choice).

>  IOW, I would reserve the infix separators ('|', ',' and '&') for model
>  groups only, where they are indeed convenient.  We *are* whiteboarding
>  syntax, no?

We are, though only in the trial-balloon mode.  The Committee isn't
ready to think about syntax yet.

>  Yes, but there's more to it.  Does/will the schema purport to describe
>  "everything" in the document, or just some determinate part of it? 

Good question.

>  I'd say the application invokes it, through some interface that allows
>  specification of the relevant declarations (and I suppose, the root).  But
>  I don't see how this is relevant to DTD syntax.

Well, the declaration of doc-elem-form is inside the DTD.

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