Re: Attribute value normalization

Lars Marius Garshol (larsga@ifi.uio.no)
27 May 1998 10:28:27 +0200

* MURATA Makoto
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| While translating the XML specification, I find that I do not
| understand the attribute normalization mechanism of XML.

While reconsidering your question I found that

a) my previous answer is wrong and
b) my interpretation of the spec at this point hinges on whether the
normalization step for non-CDATA attributes should be performed
before or after the normalization of whitespace to  

I think it is after, but I don't really know. Sorry.

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