[jdom-interest] getBooleanValue() in Attribute

Tue May 14 11:06:00 PDT 2002

At 6:52 PM +0200 5/14/02, Laurent Bihanic wrote:


>Parsers are required to report trimmed values. So this would apply 
>only to attribute values set directly through JDOM. This brings us 
>back to the thread about normalizing attribute values according to 
>their type. A first step could be to immediately apply CDATA 
>normalization in Attribute.setValue().
>

No, that's incorrect. Parsers only normalize attribute values when 
the type is not CDATA or UNDECLARED. For many attributes, especially 
in invalid documents with no DTD, values are not normalized. Thus 
this is really a separate issue.
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