From: Shalom Bresticker (Shalom.Bresticker@motorola.com)
Date: Wed Jan 23 2002 - 22:50:38 PST
It appears in the 2nd item in
http://www.boydtechinc.com/btf/archive/btf_2000/1024.html
Shalom
Steven Sharp wrote:
> >> Also note that this is not the only situation where multiple attributes with
> >> the same name can appear on the same object. We debated what to do if the
> >> same attribute name is attached redundantly (e.g. produce an error, produce
> >> an error only if the values don't match, use the last value seen). We
> finally
> >> decided not to do anything about that either.
> >
> >Are you sure? :-) Section 2.8, page 14, last paragraph, states:
> >
> > "If the same attribute name is defined more than once for the same language
> > element, the last attribute value shall be used ..."
>
> Well, no, I'm not that sure. I don't know whether I am remembering wrong,
> or whether the editor failed to remove that text. It doesn't appear in
> draft 5, which tends to indicate that it was deliberately added. There
> might be some meeting minutes with more detail.
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