5. Checking for Unconfigured Elements
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## 5. Checking for Unconfigured Elements

Any elements appearing in the input document that are not named in the configuration file are formatted using the values of the `*DEFAULT` section. If the file contains no `*DEFAULT` section, xmlformat uses built-in default values.

If you want to see whether there are any elements in the document for which you haven't specified any formatting options, run xmlformat with the `--show-unconfigured-elements` option. For example:

    % xmlformat --show-unconfigured-elements doc2.xml
    The following document elements were assigned no formatting options:
    title

As it happens, the title already formats in the desired fashion, so there's no necessity of adding anything more to the configuration file.

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