Apply Default Attribute Values

[Lynne A. Price]

At 01:25 AM 12/19/2005, Shlomo Perets wrote:
>A quick note related to previous posts in this thread: EDDs support the 
>specification of a default value for attributes declared as optional, but 
>not for attributes declared as required.

Shlomo,
   Of course--having a default contradicts requiring a value to be specified!

   I don't know if my previous message on this thread made it through, but 
FM's notion of attribute default values came directly from SGML/XML.
         --Lynne


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