Re: conflicting answers

Arjun Ray (aray@q2.net)
Thu, 6 Nov 1997 12:23:04 -0500 (EST)


On Wed, 5 Nov 1997, Tim Bray wrote:

> At 10:03 AM 06/11/97 +1300, Scott Cooper wrote:
>
> >suggesting parameter entity references aren't expanded within the
> >default string in an attdef(?). good, bad and/or ugly?
>
> Wrong. They are supposed to be expanded. -T.

Really? It's not that way in SGML. Clause 11.3.4 "Default Value" (p. 424-5
in the Handbook) has this

[147] default value =
( ( RNI,
"FIXED",
ps+ ) ?,
attribute value specification ) |
...

which basically means that a string literal for the a.v.s will not be
replaceble parameter data.

FWIW, nsgmls doesn't expand PEs here either.

Arjun