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[Gabriel Bodard]

On 11/12/2012 09:48, Sebastian Rahtz wrote:
>    a) we can't implement default values in RELAXNG schemas

As an aside on this discussion, can someone explain to me, given the 
above statement from Sebastian is true (as I have always understood it 
to be), what is meant by the option in the latest versions of Oxygen to: 
"Add default attribute values" [in RNG]? (See 
http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/topics/relax-ng-preferences-page.html)

(I discovered this a few weeks ago because, upon upgrading to Oxygen 14 
at work, I found all sorts of unfamiliar attributes being added to my 
XML by an identity transform. My first thought was, "I thought we'd got 
away from this crap when we stopped using DTDs!" It seems that the 
option is selected by default in Oxygen, and you need to turn it off if 
you don't want default attribute values being added. Which I don't.)

Apologies if this is irrelevant to the defaultVal discussion.

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