Re: Accessing default attributes from DTD

Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@ifi.uio.no)
14 May 1998 15:29:39 +0200

* Amit Rekhi
|
| The A.dtd contains :-
| .......
| <!ATTLIST TEMP
| ATTR-1 NUMBER #FIXED "0">
| .........
|
| In my A.html file I want to access <TEMP>'s default attribute ATTR-1
| (defined in A.dtd) after I parse the A.xml file into a tree using
| MSXML java parser.
|
| How would I do that???

A conforming XML parser that reads the DTD will behave as if the
ATTR-1 attribute had been present on every TEMP element, so you don't
need access to the DTD or any other kind of magic.

If MSXML doesn't do this I suggest you use a parser that does. You can
find a list of parsers at

<URL:http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/linker/XMLtools.html#C0SC4>

(Also note that XML doesn't have a "NUMBER" attribute type. You'll
have to use CDATA.)

-- 
"These are, as I began, cumbersome ways / to kill a man. Simpler, direct, 
and much more neat / is to see that he is living somewhere in the middle /
of the twentieth century, and leave him there."     -- Edwin Brock


 http://www.stud.ifi.uio.no/~larsga/      http://birk105.studby.uio.no/