XML - single tag, multiple values?

[zoe256]

Hi guys,

I'm a bit stuck, just wondering if anyone could help me. It's for a final year assignment at university, to create a costume searching system for a made up sci-fi TV show (in case you were wondering!). We've been given this DTD:

<!ELEMENT costumeCatalogue (supplier, costume+)>
<!ELEMENT supplier (name, email)>
<!ELEMENT costume (characterType, gender, size+)>
<!ELEMENT characterType (species, caste?)>
<!ELEMENT size (top, bottom)>

<!ELEMENT name (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT email (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT gender (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT species (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT caste (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT top (#PCDATA)>
<!ELEMENT bottom (#PCDATA)>

And this was some example data to go in our xml file (I've cut it down to the important bit!):

Sizes:
top - large, medium
bottom - large, medium

I was unsure how to implement this, whether to do it like so:

<size>
<top>Large</top>
<top>Medium</top>
<bottom>Large</bottom>
<bottom>Medium</bottom>
</size>

Or simply to do it like this:

<size>
<top>Large, Medium</top>
<bottom>Large, Medium</bottom>
</size>

I asked my lecturer, he said he couldn't say how to do it, all he could say was that it was 'neither' of those two ways. Is there any other way to do it?

Thanks, Zoe

[Charles]

Your second try is valid in the XML sense of the word, but not what the lecturer has in mind. The "+" in

<!ELEMENT costume (characterType, gender, size+)>

means that a costume must have one or more size elements.