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Tim Bray writes: > At 09:00 PM 4/17/98 -0400, David Megginson wrote: > >Should SAX level 1 allow parsers to report implied attributes by > >providing null for AttributeList.getValue() (it does not currently do > >so)? The only application I can think of right now is architectural > >forms, where an implied attribute can prevent automatic derivation. > > Nothing in the XML spec suggests that anything should be done about > #IMPLIED-but-absent attributes... there was such language but we > deliberately took it out. -Tim The XML 1.0 spec does not define most of the information model provided by a parser, so it is not safe to assume that omission means prohibition; however, I agree with you and with James (from a posting a few months ago) that it makes sense to pass over unspecified #IMPLIED attributes in SAX level 1. Thanks, and all the best, David -- David Megginson ak117@f... Microstar Software Ltd. dmeggins@m... http://home.sprynet.com/sprynet/dmeggins/ 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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