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Rule Property

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Read-Only. A value from the XML_DTDSubElementRules enumerated list containing the sub-element usage rule.

Syntax

object.Rule

The object placeholder represents an XMLDTDSubElement object.

Settings

See the XML_DTDSubElementRules enumerated list topic.

Background

A DTD Element declaration can have a number of sub-elements. These sub-elements will each have a usage rule, the rules are indicated by the presence or otherwise of a character. The following example has four sub-elements with the four different sub-element usage rules :

<!ELEMENT element1 (subelement2 | subelement3+ | subelement4? | subelement5*)>