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- From: Tim Bray <tbray@textuality.com>
- To: Rob Lugt <roblugt@elcel.com>, xml-dev@lists.xml.org
- Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 08:13:57 -0800
At 02:43 PM 09/11/00 +0000, Rob Lugt wrote:
>What does a SAX2 application do if it wants to know about unspecified but
>#IMPLIED attributes in a start element tag?
SAX2 doesn't do that, and I wouldn't count on any other API either.
The XML spec tries to make it clear that an attribute which is
#IMPLIED but not there just isn't there, so there's no particular
reason to tell client software that "there could have been a FOO
attribute her, but there isn't." Consider that based on your
DTD/schema, there are typically lots of child elements that could
appear but don't, and you don't get to hear about them either.
-Tim
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