- From: Blaine Brodie <bbrodie@savagesoftware.com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 13:55:14 -0700
- To: www-dom@w3.org
Some clarification please. In the DOM2 spec of December 10, 1999, section 1.2 describing the Attr interface [p.57] contains the following paragraph: "In XML, where the value of an attribute can contain entity references, the child nodes of the Attr node provide a representation in which entity references are not expanded. These child nodes may be either Text [p.66] or EntityReference [p.71] nodes. Because the attribute type may be unknown, there are no tokenized attribute values." I don't understand the meaning of the last sentence. Does it mean that attribute values MUST be atomic? Can anyone provide a clearer explanation and possibly illustrate the meaning with an example? Thanks in advance. S.
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