RE: Comparing an attribute value to its default in DTD

No, there is no way from within XSLT/XPath of finding out what the default
value declared in the DTD is - it's not part of the XPath data model.

Michael Kay
Software AG
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> Parasirakis
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> Subject:  Comparing an attribute value to its default in DTD
>
>
> I am wondering if there is a way to compare an attribute
> value with its
> default value defined in the DTD. Something like this:
>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="*@[. !=  '{attribute's default val}']"/>
>
> I would like to only output the attributes which are not the
> default value
> to make the outputted xml more readable. I have about 30
> attributes but
> most of then are just set to their default values. Is there
> any way to
> reference the attribute's default value?
>
>
> Emmanuel Parasirakis (Manny)     Art Technology Group
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