[XML-SIG] Re: [4suite] (no subject)

Tue, 27 Aug 2002 18:04:58 +0200

On Tue, Aug 27, 2002 at 05:30:15PM +0200, Tommy Sundström wrote:
> Newbie question.

Hi, this is not the right mailing list. You should ask questions about
pyxml on the xml-sig mailing list (cc'ed to this answer)

> Running this code:
> 
> ---
> import xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax2
> from xml.dom.ext import PrettyPrint
> 
> str = '''<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
>     "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
> 
> <h3><a href='page.htm'>Text</a></h3>'''
> 
> doc = xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax2.FromXml(str)
> PrettyPrint(doc.documentElement)
> ---
> 
> gives this result:
> ---
> <h3><a href='page.htm' shape='rect'>Text</a></h3>
> ---

This is perfectly normal

> My question: where does the "shape='rect'" comes from (It's not added 
> unless the DOCTYPE element is there.)

It comes from the DTD. Download it from the url in the doctype and see
for yourself that the <a> element has a shape attribute with a default
value of 'rect'.

> Can it do any harm? Is there any way of surpressing it?

Not that I know of, but the gurus on xml-sig may. 

Alexandre Fayolle
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