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 Perets
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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
We're mainly talking, I presume, about Choice-type
attributes (Name Token Groups in DTD parlance).
If such an attribute is declared to be REQUIRED,
either the EDD, the DTD, or both MAY specify a default
value (i.e, one of the specified values in the
name-token group), in which case the absence of
Rick,
I thought you could do this in the EDD, and you can, but it might depend
on the type of attribute. Search the Structure_Dev_Guide for default
attribute. I only got seven hits. Most of the hits are concerned with
the DTD, but there is a comment that keeps popping up In FrameMaker, a
default
Rick,
I thought you could do this in the EDD, and you can, but it might depend
on the type of attribute. Search the Structure_Dev_Guide for default
attribute. I only got seven hits. Most of the hits are concerned with
the DTD, but there is a comment that keeps popping up In FrameMaker, a
default
You can define a default value for an attribute, but as far as I know
the process of importing an EDD won't change an attribute value from one
thing to another. The default value is just the value of the attribute
if it has no other value applied.
I guess the question is, in the statement ..
Hi Rick...
You're right .. these default values that you can define in the EDD,
are not as useful as one might hope. They aren't exported to XML and
they don't seem to have much purpose. However, the FDK (and I believe
the EDD itself) can read the default as a value. So a plugin or
