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Brad Might <jbm@hal.com> writes:
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|   Can you show me where you have read that #CURRENT attributes
|   are shared amongst different elements?

No.  Not because I'm stubborn, but because you're right -- there is no
such place.  Several things contributed to my misunderstanding of
this.  The word "inherit" occurs in B.5.2.4 [38:20], and I think I
mixed the rank feature in (note the name groupe I used to indicate
that they belonged together -- all bogus), and added a touch of
so-called "object oriented" languages to expand the meaning of
"inherit" beyond the safety limit.

|   Nowhere in the standard have I seen a mention of inheriting
|   attribute values from elements of a different type.

I stand corrected.  I spent a lot of time leafing back and forth
trying to find places where it said I was wrong, but all I found was
places where it said I wasn't right, but could be interpreted to be.
When I looked for places where it said I was right, I found none.
This makes me understand how people can stick with small misunder-
standings for a long time.  Thanks for setting this straight so fast.

|   I do see this mentioned in "Practical SGML", but it's not the
|   standard.

Hmmm... one of the annoying errors that bit _me_.  Eeek.  :-)

To conclude, then, there is no way to make an attribute value be
inherited by subelements of an element which specifies a value.
Kind of sad, since it leaves the <!ELEMENT language ANY> solution.

Does your NOTATION suggestion provide a better solution?

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