Re: REC-xml-19980210: normalized attribute values

David Brownell (db@Eng.Sun.COM)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 08:57:33 -0700


Richard Emberson wrote:

> Does the XML processor actually check for this Validity Constraint
> violation before normalization?

It's a validity constraint, so it must check if it's a
validating processor. The check is simple: compare values
before and after normalization, and if they differ then the
document was NOT standalone. (Implies check should be done
AFTER normalization, not before!)

- Dave