Kay Michael wrote:
> I have a feeling Microsoft's XML parser auto-detects 
> iso-8859-1 encoding. I
> suspect this contravenes the XML specification, though it is 
> a very handy
> feature.

We don't do any auto-detection of encodings.

> > 2)
> > I have also noticed that I cannot use:
> > <xsl:value-of/>
> > with Saxon but I need to use
> > <xsl:value-of select = "."/>
> > 
> The select attribute is mandatory according to the XSLT 1.0 
> specification.

This is enforced in MSXML3.  It is not enforced in the TR/WD-xsl namespace.
I pushed for this default in the WG but lost :-)  The January Web Release
did not enforce it in the XSLT namespace either, which was a bug that has
been fixed in MSXML3.

- Jonathan Marsh
  Microsoft


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