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Re: SAX Parser and Attribute Normalization

• To: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: Re: SAX Parser and Attribute Normalization
• From: "Karl Waclawek" <karl@w...>
• Date: Fri, 31 Jan 2003 19:45:54 -0500
• References: <15725CF6AFE2F34DB8A5B4770B7334EEEACEAA@h...>

> Urrrp... I think I got this.  If the 
> attribute is in a document minus a DTD, 
> it, by default, is undeclared.  If undeclared, 
> the processor passes it on intact without 
> normalization because it has no knowledge 
> of the type.
> 
> Is that right?

Not quite. It is normalized like CDATA.
However, there are levels of normalization.
For CDATA, leading and trailing blanks are *not* removed.

Karl

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