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Re: PEs in Default Attribute Values

• From: Richard Tobin <richard@c...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 17:26:31 +0100 (BST)

> 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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