Entity references in Attr values

An attribute in an XML document may contain general entity references to 
entities defined in the DTD; e.g.:

<myElement att="Here's some text &link; with an entity ref">
  data
</myElement>

What should a DOM implementation do when faced with something like this 
when the replacement text for the geenral entity is not available 
because it's defined in the external DTD subset which the parser did not 
read? In particular what should getValue() return for the corresponding 
Attr node?

I find nothing in the spec that addresses this possibility.

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Received on Monday, 17 December 2001 12:51:02 UTC