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Subject: Re: DOCTYPE causes appearance of unwanted attributes
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 06 Apr 2004 12:49:10 -0400

At 2004-04-06 11:39 -0500, Paul DuBois wrote:

I'm finding that including a DOCTYPE declaration in my source XML
document causes the output to contain unwanted attributes.
...
Input file 2 (same but with DOCTYPE):

<?xml version='1.0'?>
<!DOCTYPE chapter PUBLIC '-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.3//EN'
                  "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.3/docbookx.dtd" >
...
The significance and moreinfo attributes have been added.

1) Why is this?

Defaulted attributes declared in a Document Type Definition are included in the XPath data model for an XML document.

2) Can I suppress it? :-)

You cannot distinguish between a defaulted attribute and a specified attribute (unspecified implied attributes are not included in the XPath data model).

If you don't want your DTD's supply of attributes, then don't reference the DTD.

I hope this helps.

..................... Ken

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