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Hi all, no-one will be surprised by the following statement : It is possible to use XSL to generate badly-formed XML (i.e. with 2 or more high-level elements, for instance). To me, it is a feature of the XSL specs, not an omission. The problem is that some tools like Infoteria iXSLT (www.infoteria.com) are sold as "XML->XML conversion engine using XSLT". Therefore, iXSLT, without prompting fo your advice, adds the well-known following line to the output : <?xml version.......> Then, with an ad-hoc XSL stylesheet, you're able to output something like : <?xml version="1.0"?> <AnElement/> <AnElementThatShouldNotBeHere/> which is obviously nonsense. The conclusion is : one mustn't be stupid, and must feed ixslt with a right stylesheet. Tell me : must Infoteria (and probably other vendors) be blamed for inserting the XML header on the top of non-XML files, or has the W3C already got an answer to that problem ? Apart from that, I'm pretty satisfied with it (I love the doc() function !), and everyone should have a look at www.infoteria.com Thanks for thinking about it Sébastien Bouchet sebastien.bouchet@a... /* Message above expresses personal views and opinions */ xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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