Re: Rebuild an element without copying defaulted attr

For DITA, the attributes @class and @domains would normally be omitted
from instances in all cases (assuming the documents will have DTDs or
schemas to then provide the defaults).

For DITA 1.3 we're using RELAX NG as the normative form of the DITA
vocabulary. DITA uses the RELAX NG DTD compatibility facilities to specify
attribute defaults, which makes it easy to know what the defaults are.

It should be relatively easy to implement an XSLT or XQuery to report all
the attribute defaults, which would certainly be useful for this sort of
DITA-to-DITA transform. I'll see if I can do something for this quickly
this weekend.

The RELAX NG versions of the vocabulary can be accessed from the DITA
Technical Committee's SVN repository:

http://tools.oasis-open.org/version-control/svn/dita/doctypes/src

There are both 1.2 and 1.3 versions of the RELAX NG. In
doctypes/tools/relaxng there is some general XSLT code for working with
the RELAX NG documents.

Cheers,


Eliot
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Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com




On 8/12/14, 5:14 PM, "Abel Braaksma (Exselt) abel@xxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
>> I'm looking for a generalized solution so I didn't have to search
>> the DTD for all defaulted vaules. I just happened to catch
>> xml:space as I had a different problem that I fixed.
>
>Remember that in XML there is no difference between the defaulted value
>of the attribute set through the DTD and the same value set explicitly.
>Also, unless you copy the same DTD to the output, you would lose this
>default value if you remove it as in the examples shown, which is why the
>attribute with default value is considered to be present on the <pre> and
>other elements on which it is defined.
>
>Removing it the way you did, and similar for any other defaults, may
>alter the way the XML is rendered or interpreted, unless you recreate the
>same defaults through a DTD. If that is intentional (i.e., if you indeed
>want to remove any attribute that has a default value), straight XSLT may
>not be the ideal solution, because this DTD information is not annotated
>/ retained on the nodes, either during processing or in the result.
>
>For automated processing, XML with the explicit or implicit default
>attribute is the same.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Abel Braaksma
>Exselt streaming XSLT 3.0 processor
>http://exselt.net