Re: [xsl] [XSL] extracting a verse

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2002-12-19 10:16 +0000, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> > I missed the start of this thread but is d-o-e acceptable?
>
> ...
>
> which you could use as either the source or result of the stylesheet
> (or both) as desired. I don't know if that's a worthwhile avenue to
> pursue; it has the same disadvantage as d-o-e that there's no
> guarantee of the well-formedness of the result.

The other problem with d-o-e= is that you only end up with element start 
and end tags in a serialized result, not in the result node tree.

If you have any process on the back end that works with the result node 
tree instead of the serialized syntax of the result node tree, that process 
won't see element nodes but only text nodes with that weird flag set.

Consider the "chaining" of XSLT processors where the result node tree of 
one process is the source node tree of the next:  if you used d-o-e= to 
simulate elements, the following process wouldn't see elements, it would 
only see text.

Using d-o-e= for syntax construction will only work when you are creating 
physical syntax from the result tree.

I hope this helps.

................... Ken


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