- From: Dave Peterson <davep@acm.org>
- Date: Sat, 7 Dec 1996 15:24:05 -0500
- To: w3c-sgml-wg@w3.org
Gavin Nicol wrote: > I would be interested in hearing why people wish to necessarily >have the entire attribute set appear on each element instead of just >the attributes that had values specified (ie. I wonder if applications >couldn't be built for the latter case that are effectively the same as >the former). I cannot see any reason they could not. The reason for "real" defaulted values as I see it is so that the DTD designer can direct that all applications get the same default value, which "#IMPLIED" cannot insure. Administrative sanctions on application builders can have the same effect. (Though the may be tough to enforce in some open environments....) Dave Peterson SGMLWorks! davep@acm.org
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