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John Cowan <jcowan@r...> writes:
> Henry S. Thompson wrote:
>
>
> > [G]iven
> > <?xml version='1.0' standalone='yes'?>
>
> > <!DOCTYPE foo [
> > <!ATTLIST foo baz CDATA 'banana'>
> > ]>
> > <foo/>
> > some conforming processors will fill in the attribute value and some
>
> > won't.
>
> Not.
>
> As Section 5.1 says:
>
> # While [non-validating processors] are not required to check the
> # document for validity, they are required to *process* all the
> # declarations they read in the internal DTD subset [...] up
> # to the first reference to a parameter entity that they do /not/
> # read; that is to say, they must use the information in those
> # declarations to [...] supply default attribute values.
>
> The presence of "must" means that processors that don't fill in
> the attribute value are not conforming processors. This is
> an important point, since it is a widespread myth that non-validating
> processors may ignore the DTD altogether.
Thanks, I've made this mistake before, and should know better by now.
ht
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