Re: wd-xml-names: precedence rules for attribute specification

Tim Bray (tbray@textuality.com)
Tue, 11 Aug 1998 13:23:34 -0700


At 09:33 PM 8/11/98 +0200, james anderson wrote:
>IV. please specify the precedence rules for attribute "specification".
>
>there are three states in the following matrix

I can't understand the rows & columns of the matrix. Could you
provide some examples? In particular I can't understand
what you mean by "default presence in attribute declaration"
and "attribute presence in element".

Surely you're not talking about default attribute values in
<!ATTLIST declarations? If so, that's a non-issue; the defaults
are there if it's not explicitly specified, they're not there if
it is explicitly specified, there can be no ambiguity. -Tim