On Sat, 7 Feb 2004, Dave Pawson wrote: > At 07:31 07/02/2004, Mike MacCana wrote: > >Obviously my doc doesn't conform to the DTD - but does it really need all > >the sections mentioned? Or are some of them optional? > > > The message is saying 'these elements are valid here, > and your document doesn't have any of them > > > >If its a simple answer, what's my doc currently lacking - as I started > >from the example tutorial... > > > try > <article> > <title>Article title</title> > <sect1> > <title>Section title</title> > <para> ...... Thanks for your help. That's what I seem to have (although the title is contained within articleinfo tags as with the sample tutorial. Basically, what I want is a description of what the error message means - ie, what does an element with a ? after it mean, what do the brackets means, what's compulsory? I expect there's a URL somewhere to tell me but damned if I/Google can find it. Mike