Wendell Piez wrote:
> It's interesting that your XSLT processor lets you put the PI into the
> attribute at all (doing you the kindness of stripping the angle
> brackets to
> make it well-formed, while thereby unmaking it a PI).

The XSLT spec says:

[It is an error to create] nodes other than text nodes during the
instantiation of the content of the xsl:attribute element; implementations
may either signal the error or ignore the offending nodes.[1]

The question is, what does "ignore the offending nodes" mean? I don't think
it means "insert the string value instead (a la output='text' rules)". So,
interesting, yes.

Evan Lenz
XYZFind Corp.

[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#creating-attributes

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> Subject: Re:  Re: producing php with xslt
>
>
> Oh dear,
>
> If the "processing instruction" has to go in an attribute, you
> can't create
> XML, since XML doesn't allow that.
>
> Back to square one. Create it as a literal string with
> disable-output-escaping. Be aware that the result won't be XML, and a
> conforming XML processor will refuse to handle it. (Your PHP processor
> might be okay with it though; I can't speak to that.)
>
> It's interesting that your XSLT processor lets you put the PI into the
> attribute at all (doing you the kindness of stripping the angle
> brackets to
> make it well-formed, while thereby unmaking it a PI).
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
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