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Re: XSLT, XHTML, and default attribute values [somewhat OT]

2004-09-14 13:32:51
At 03:05 PM 9/14/2004, Joe wrote:
There seems to be a continuum of "levels of interest", from the basic
lexical structure, to the "infoset" explicit in the document, to the
type-annotated infoset, to the infoset augmented with default
values.  The problem is that there's no way to tell my tools what
level I'm interested in.

This is nicely put, with the caveat that some of us might like to consider type annotations to be a higher level than an infoset augmented with defaults -- which can, after all, always be considered as "just strings". In either case, it appears to be a semantic hierarchy, as contextual information is brought to bear as you go from bottom to top.

Cheers,
Wendell


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