• From: Rob Lugt <roblugt@e...>
• To: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>, xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 18:00:29 +0100

Thanks Richard, it seems the core WG has already reached consensus and it is
one I happily agree with.   I will email the Oasis Conformance editors to
inform them of the error.

Just to clarify, Richard is referring to the text in XML 1.0, section 4.4.

Regards
Rob Lugt

----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Tobin" <richard@c...>
To: <xml-dev@l...>
Sent: Wednesday, May 02, 2001 5:26 PM
Subject: Re: PEs in Default Attribute Values


>
> > One
> > justification for this way of thinking can be found in XML 1.0 Section
4.4
> > which states that PEs referenced in Attribute Values are "not
recognised".
> > But it could be argued they are not recognised simply because Attribute
> > Values only occur outside of DTDs.
>
> The definition of Reference in Attribute Value makes this clear:
>
>   as a reference within either the value of an attribute in a
>   start-tag, or a default value in an attribute declaration;
>   corresponds to the nonterminal AttValue.
>
> The Oasis test is mistaken.
>
> -- Richard
>
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