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Description ----- The Object Element Processing Rule required us to introduce the loadType attribute on the objectInfo element. This works fine but requires the Resource class to process objects with a special rule, and I'm trying to generalize stuff when they can be. The loadType attribute can take 3 values: SKIPPED, TASTED and RENDERED (default value). This could apply to other resources as well, e.g. TASTED could be used for images if their content-type is not supported by a browser. Solution ----- We could promote the loadType attribute of the objectInfo element to either a generic loadType element or to a loadType attribute on, say, the URI element. I'm more inclined to have a separate loadType element. Since the type attribute of the objectInfo carries the exact same information as the imageInfo type attribute, then provided bug 6820 is fixed, the objectInfo element would then not be needed at all.