Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT 2.1 From: Geert Josten <Geert.Josten@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 1 Nov 2008 19:05:27 +0100 |
> Is it, then, still XSLT? > > Michael Ludwig +1 (not really XSLT anymore like this) But as Michael Kay said, that the use case is real is without doubt. On the other hand, adding provisions to the XSLT standard to make this a lot easier do not necessarily have to be hard. In principle most parsing is needed to get information from the XML prolog. It doesn't need to be added to the XDM, as long as the information can be retrieved somehow. The second thing that is necessary is to make it possible to give output directions dynamically, which is going to be hard without buffering the result tree. Alternatively, one could might suffice with a simple option to the xsl:output saying 'preserve-original-prolog' (or something alike), or for more granularity, things like: 'preserve-encoding', 'preserve-doctype-declaration', etc.. Adding full control on the local entity declaration subset is likely to violate the XML standard however. I recall that XML processors *must* resolve entities. The reason was to keep XML processing simple. (correct me if I am wrong) Adding entity handling would sound like going back to the SGML era to me.. ;-) Kind regards, Geert Drs. G.P.H. Josten Consultant http://www.daidalos.nl/ Daidalos BV Source of Innovation Hoekeindsehof 1-4 2665 JZ Bleiswijk Tel.: +31 (0) 10 850 1200 Fax: +31 (0) 10 850 1199 http://www.daidalos.nl/ KvK 27164984 De informatie - verzonden in of met dit emailbericht - is afkomstig van Daidalos BV en is uitsluitend bestemd voor de geadresseerde. Indien u dit bericht onbedoeld hebt ontvangen, verzoeken wij u het te verwijderen. Aan dit bericht kunnen geen rechten worden ontleend.
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