Re: [xsl] result-document output method vs unnammed output method

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

At 2011-11-25 17:02 +0000, Andrew Welch wrote:
> Friday afternoon test - try and guess the output:
>
> A.xslt:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet  version="2.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>     <xsl:import href="B.xslt"/>
>
>     <xsl:template match="/" name="main">
>         <xsl:result-document method="xml">
>             <foo>bar</foo>
>         </xsl:result-document>
>     </xsl:template>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>
>
> B.xslt:
>
> <xsl:stylesheet version="2.0"
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform";>
>
>     <xsl:output method="text"/>
>
> </xsl:stylesheet>

Well, I've already made one big mistake today ... I'll risk another.  I'll say:

   <foo>bar</foo>

The imported method would have changed the main output to text except 
that the result-document instruction overrides that.

Why do you ask?

. . . . . . . . . . Ken


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