Subject: Re: Fw: Fw: I need < - I get < From: Tyler Baker <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 03 Feb 1999 11:46:22 -0500 |
Oren Ben-Kiki wrote: > Tyler Baker <tyler@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >They are convenient and I think that in addition to xsl:cdata, > xsl:entity-ref > >is a perfectly good addition to XSL that will be useful to XSL users in the > >future. I am surprised these two template element additions did not make > it > >into the last draft... > > The tags <xsl:cdata> and <xsl:entity-ref> are not _vital_ - as long as the > output is going to be read by an XML processor. It boils down to the > question of "Should an XSL stylesheet be able to emit all possible XML > _textual representations_ or just all possible _documents_". > > The reason that _I_ would like to have them is that they can be argued to be > within the current intent while allowing a clean way to emit non-XML output > for those who need it (TeX, Rtf, ...). I'd rather that this need was > addressed directly, but I find such tags as a reasonable compromise for the > sake of the purity of the language. > > All this doesn't have anything to do with the example you've given - the > output was valid XML. The example had to do with using MS's xsl:cdata tags. Even though you can argue that xsl:cdata and xsl:entity-ref are not 100% absolutely necessary, they certainly are convenient, especially to anyone doing XML -> HTML transformations (which is about 99% of the real world XSL users out there). Why should XSL users have their needs dictated to them by a higher body. Why not add something in which adds no more complexity to using XSL or writing an XSL Processor, complements XML -> XML transformations, and gets the job done for the majority of XSL users over the next couple of years. If xsl:cdata and xsl:entity-ref added any significant level of complexity to XSL I would be all against it. Tyler XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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