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Subject: Re: [xsl] output to iso-8859-1 of non-iso characters, what is required action From: "bryan rasmussen" <rasmussen.bryan@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 7 May 2008 20:02:26 +0200 |
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 5:20 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > But if I am outputting a text document with iso-8859-1 then > > the presence of non-iso characters in the output will raise an error. > > The spec says "should" rather than "will". XSLT 2.0 is stricter, it says > "must". > > If you're asking what the spec says, that's the answer. Hmm, yeah, are there any processors that don't implement the Should as a requirement? > If you're asking why > it says that, that's a different question. no, I was basically asking if my interpretation was approximately correct, or what the issues in play were. so that's cool. > It's very hard to answer > questions about why a WG made a particular decision even if you were at all > the relevant meetings - which I wasn't. What one can do is try to invent a > rationale that the WG might use to justify the decision if asked. yeah, the same thing I was thinking. I could argue it either way actually. One thing I was wondering about, since it says MUST in 2.0 is there an argument there? Cheers, Bryan Rasmussen
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