Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
> > Better yet, how do you define 'portable'?
> 
> Mike, I already confessed that I give up.
> [snip]
> ( and I see that you really understand this magic, when I don't ).
> [snip]
> Again - I think you do understand situation really much better than I
> do.  Because, for example, I'll never push myself learning all the
> "portability" magic you have learned. 

Your sarcasm is misdirected. This is a good discussion raising issues for
the benefit of all -- especially the XSL WG -- to understand that, as
you've been saying, the meaning and implications of version="foo" in the
stylesheet are far from clear, given the behavioural differences between
processors, in practice.

> I say ( to myself ) : "this is a hell of #ifdefs

I agree.

   - Mike
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