Re: XML-LINK implementation

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Fri, 11 Apr 1997 08:08:26 -0700


>2.1 **Default Attribute Values**. This appears to be a parser requirement
>and I'd be grateful if Norbert and Tim (and any other parser writers) could
>express their views. At present all my test examples are based on explicit
>attributes in the document. Parser development would be highly desirable.

Yes. Lark (and I'm nearly certain NXP) both do default attributes now,
if declared in the internal subset, properly; so there's no need
for those explicit attributes.

>**General point** XML-LINK applies to WF as well as valid documents.
There are
>many things that can produce apparently meaningless documents (e.g. linking
>from one WF|valid document to another WF|valid which might reasonably throw
>errors but the spec has not (yet) commented on these - I hope it will later.

Huh? I don't understand this point at all. -Tim