Re: SAX: Implied Attributes

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Sun, 19 Apr 1998 09:49:24 -0700

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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

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