Re: [xsl] How to get to the XML Declaration

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Kenneth Stephen wrote:

>     Why was this decision made? I see from the XSLT 2.0 requirements
> document, that one of the requirements was to give XSLT the ability to
> figure out what the input encoding was. There is even a use case
> mentioned in the requirements document :
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20req (see item 1.4) which talks about why
> this would be useful.

Speaking for myself (I have no idea what the WG's thinking was) that 
requirement was a COULD, not a MUST or even a SHOULD. I tend to think 
it's not that important to know the encoding. Most importantly providing 
that functionality would mean that an XSLT 2 processor couldn't be 
implemented on top of a standard XML parser which does not provide that 
information.

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