Case 12-1
Casey is using XML to store information about the students in the science classes that he teaches. He wants to design a DTD that he can use to validate the XML documents that he uses for this purpose, and he comes to you for help.

-Casey needs to declare an "address" element that can be used to store a student's address.If he intends to store the address as parsed character data, which of the following is an appropriate declaration for this element?

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Parsed character data, also known as PCDATA, refers to the textual content of an element. Therefore, the appropriate declaration for the "address" element in this case is "". Choice B ("") declares an element with character content, but this would mean that only a single character is allowed within the element. Choice C ("") is not a valid declaration for an element in a DTD. Choice D ("") is also not appropriate because CDATA refers to character data that can contain special characters that would normally be parsed as markup.

Case 12-1 Casey Is Using XML to Store Information About the Students