RE: [xsl] specifying html doctypes using xslt literal result stylesheets

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> The May 2003 draft of the 2.0 spec has generating
> XHTML as the prime example of using the Simplified
> Module Syntax.
> 
> Since real life use of XHTML *requires* doctypes
> and the Simplified Module Syntax is incompatible
> with producing the required doctypes, the example
> should be changed to one where doctypes are
> unnecessary and the text should explicitly warn
> about the doctype issue when using this syntax.
> 
> Alternatively, you could add a way for to specify
> an output doctype in the simplified syntax (useful
> for the 99% XHTML case).  How about giving
> the obvious meaning to an xsl:doctype-public
> attribute in the root element or just allowing the
> top-level elements in the simplified syntax?
> 

Reasonable point. I don't think we want to add functionality to the
simplified syntax that duplicates things you can do with the full
syntax.

Perhaps the XHTML output method should output a DOCTYPE declaration by
default.

Michael Kay


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