Labels:text | screenshot | rectangle | diagram OCR: The Attribute Provider As can be seen from the schematic the Attribute Provider s consid: ared a separate entity to the compiler' Theoretically there is no reason why the processing of attributes could not be incorporated within the compiler It is essentially a form of preprocessing;However the view taken was that the compiler developers are not COM specialists and further complexity should not be devolved down to the compiler: the ATLteam has implemented the Attribute Provider separately: