> At 10:03 AM 06/11/97 +1300, Scott Cooper wrote:
> 
> >suggesting parameter entity references aren't expanded within the
> >default string in an attdef(?). good, bad and/or ugly? 
> 
> Wrong.  They are supposed to be expanded. -T.
Really? It's not that way in SGML. Clause 11.3.4 "Default Value" (p. 424-5
in the Handbook) has this 
[147] default value =
        ( ( RNI,
            "FIXED",
             ps+ ) ?,
          attribute value specification ) |
          ...
which basically means that a string literal for the a.v.s will not be
replaceble parameter data.
FWIW, nsgmls doesn't expand PEs here either.
Arjun