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At 1:55 PM -0400 4/30/02, W. E. Perry wrote: >I believe that Mike Kay has won this on a TKO, but IMHO it is a tragically >pyrrhic victory. For the record, I don't accept the TKO judgement, but I will accept that not a lot more is to be gained by continuing this thread. I simply do not believe the Ogbuji/Kay position that any preprocessing as the source tree constructed is legal according to XSLT 1.0, for reasons I have elucidated elsewhere in this thread. I will continue to teach my students and readers that XSLT processors that apply preprocess transforms not indicated by the stylesheet (e.g. MSXML 3.0 stripping of whitespace) are not conformant to the XSLT 1.0 spec, and should not be used. I am going to have to take a good look at the XSLT 2.0 draft that was just published to see how this could be made clearer in that spec and argue for that. I think the need for conformance testing mandates such an approach, even if common sense fails to. -- +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | Elliotte Rusty Harold | elharo@m... | Writer/Programmer | +-----------------------+------------------------+-------------------+ | The XML Bible, 2nd Edition (Hungry Minds, 2001) | | http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/bible2/ | | http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN=0764547607/cafeaulaitA/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+ | Read Cafe au Lait for Java News: http://www.cafeaulait.org/ | | Read Cafe con Leche for XML News: http://www.cafeconleche.org/ | +----------------------------------+---------------------------------+
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