Attribute Declarations

Recall this element:

  <maintainer email="elharo@metalab.unc.edu" 
              url="http://www.macfaq.com/personal.html">
    <name>
      <first_name>Elliotte</first_name> 
      <middle_name>Rusty</middle_name> 
      <last_name>Harold</last_name>
    </name>
  </maintainer>

It is declared like this:

<!ELEMENT maintainer (name)>
<!ATTLIST maintainer email CDATA "webmaster@nywc.org">
<!ATTLIST maintainer url CDATA "http://www.ibiblio.org/nywc">

The general format of an <!ATTLIST> declaration is:

<!ATTLIST Element_name Attribute_name Type Default_value>

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