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Subject: RE: [xsl] specifying html doctypes using xslt literal result stylesheets From: "S. Alexander Jacobson" <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 11:31:43 -0400 (Eastern Standard Time) |
On Wed, 22 Oct 2003, Michael Kay wrote: > > Perhaps it isn't widely used because it is broken...? > > Why is it in the spec? It is also in the 2.0 > > spec... > It's not very useful, but it isn't broken. > It's in the 2.0 spec because it was in the 1.0 spec. You can't just take > things out because you don't think they are very useful. 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? -Alex- PS I would find the simplified syntax very useful if it supported doctypes and template because then I could draft my website front ends in XHTML, write my back end as a web service that produces XML with an xsl-stylesheet PI, and convert my XHTML into XSLT by replacing the fake data in the demo with data pulled from the referring XML. ___________________________________________________________________ S. Alexander Jacobson Check out my new blog!!! 1-212-787-1914 voice http://alexjacobson.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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