RE: [xsl] preventing output of attribute defaults using xalan

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Not including DTD defaulted attributes in the XPath data 
> model would be non-conformant.

I don't think this is strictly true: the XSLT specification allows you
to construct a source tree any way you like, and a processor that gave
you the option not to expand attribute defaults would, I think, be
conformant.

But that's a technicality, and the basic advice remains sound: if you
supply a DTD and use a validating parser, then attributes are likely to
be expanded, so if you don't want this to happen, then you need to make
sure that parser doesn't do validation, and the simplest way to achieve
that is to not reference a DTD.

Michael Kay


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