XML-LINK implementation

Tim Bray tbray at textuality.com
Fri Apr 11 17:21:49 BST 1997


>2.1 **Default Attribute Values**.  This appears to be a parser requirement
>and I'd be grateful if Norbert and Tim (and any other parser writers) could 
>express their views.  At present all my test examples are based on explicit
>attributes in the document.  Parser development would be highly desirable.

Yes.  Lark (and I'm nearly certain NXP) both do default attributes now,
if declared in the internal subset, properly; so there's no need
for those explicit attributes.

>**General point**  XML-LINK applies to WF as well as valid documents.
There are
>many things that can produce apparently meaningless documents (e.g. linking
>from one WF|valid document to another WF|valid which might reasonably throw
>errors but the spec has not (yet) commented on these - I hope it will later.

Huh?  I don't understand this point at all. -Tim


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