Re: What is a "state"?

On 13 Jun 2007, at 01:49, Ian Hickson wrote:

>> For instance, that an attribute has the true state as a missing value
>> state, does not mean it defaults to "true".
>
> What do you understand by "default" then? To me that's exactly what it
> means...

Ok, let me put this another way: If there is an attribute for which  
the set {"on", "true", "yes"} and missing value maps to the true  
state. Would you say it defaults to "on"?

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Henrik