Possible error in new infoset

• From: by way of Paul Grosso <ricko@gate.sinica.edu.tw>
• Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2001 16:58:27 -0600
• To: www-xml-infoset-comments@w3.org
• Message-Id: <3.0.32.20010101163613.0111dc3c@pophost.arbortext.com>

Sorry to send this to the WG list. (I cannot send a comment to the
comments list about a future WD.)

There seems to be an error in the new infoset draft due out on the 20th.

In the informativbe appendix B, 

10. A validating XML processor must supply the default value of attributes
declared in the DTD for a given element type but not appearing in the
element's start tag (5.2). 

suggests (by omission) that a non-validating processor does not need to
supply default values.  However XML 1.0 says

"they (non-validating processors) must use the information in those
declarations to normalize attribute values, include the replacement text
of internal entities, and supply default attribute values." s5.1

(The only restriction to this is if the DTD contains a reference to
a parameter entity *and* standalone!="yes")

Cheers,
Rick Jelliffe

Received on Monday, 1 January 2001 17:58:22 UTC