Re: towards consensus on fixup, part 2

On 9/7/07, Henry S. Thompson <ht@inf.ed.ac.uk> wrote:
>       Except where the specific semantics of a step explicitly require
>       changes, processors *must* preserve the information in the
>       documents and fragments they manipulate insofar as possible.  In
>       particular, the information corresponding to the infoset
>       properties
>
>        [local name]
>        [namespace name]
>        [children]
>        [attributes]
>        [normalized value]
>        [parent]
>        [owner]
>        [base URI]
>
>       *must* be preserved.  The information corresponding to
>
>        [prefix]
>        [in-scope namespaces]
>        [namespace attributes]
>        [attribute type]
>
>       *should* be preserved, with changes to the first three only as
>       required for namespace fixup.  In particular, processors are
>       encouraged to take account of prefix information in creating new
>       namespace bindings, to minimise negative impact on prefixed names
>       in content.

What do [attribute type] means ?

Mohamed

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