Re: REC-xml-19980210: default attribute values

David Brownell (db@Eng.Sun.COM)
Thu, 15 Oct 1998 09:08:43 -0700


Richard Emberson wrote:

> If the XML processor always automatically produces such
> attributes with their default values when they are missing,
> how can the Validity Constraint ever be true?

The instant a validating processor notes the need to provide
a default for a document declared "standalone", it can report
this as a validity error.

- Dave