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Re: undeclared attribute types

• To: John Cowan <jcowan@r...>
• Subject: Re: undeclared attribute types
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 08:42:43 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <200204191219.IAA05589@m...>
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At 8:19 AM -0400 4/19/02, John Cowan wrote:


>>  (The restriction to non-validating processors here is IMO an erratum in
>>  the spec which I just reported to the editors.)
>
>Validating processors treat undeclared attributes as validity errors.
>

However, a validity error does not necessarily stop processing. A 
validating parser may need to provide a normalized value for an 
attribute, even though the document is invalid.
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