Varying the attlist for an element depending on the element's parent

[Eric A. Stephens]

After re-reading the spec last night it became (more) apparent that
something like this would be the case.

Thanks.

On Thu, 3 Dec 1998, John Cowan wrote:

> Eric A. Stephens scripsit:
> 
> > What I'm looking to do is have different ATTLIST defs for the element TYPE
> > depending on the element that TYPE is contained within.
> 
> In a word, XML validation can't do it.  You have to declare the
> attribute list definitions to be a union of the two cases, and
> depend on hand-rolled validation inside the application to do the
> job.
> 
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