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Toby Speight wrote: > > If I write a {grove, tree} builder, it would be useful to know whether > a DTD was used, so that it can report an error to an application trying > to access an attribute that was not declared (this may be the symptom > of a typo, perhaps). If a DTD was not used for the parse, then the > access should return null (as if the attribute were declared #IMPLIED). The DSSSL model is that trying to access a random attribute merely returns #f. Although this could allow a typo to pass, it has the benefit of making stylesheets a little more robust to DTD variations. For instance, the same stylesheet can work with various versions of HTML. Paul Prescod xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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