>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kay <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Michael> What's more, the conformance rules are written in an
    Michael> "all-or-nothing" style.  You either support all these
    Michael> schema-aware features (import-schema, validate, node
    Michael> annotations) or you support none of them. The XSL WG
    Michael> deliberately tried to avoid having products that
    Michael> cherry-picked the individual features they wanted to
    Michael> implement.

You mean like Saxon 7.8 does? :-)

I refer to the annotating of attributes as xs:IDREF, which is
specifically disallowed by the standard for Basic XSLT processors, and
seems to make it impossible for a Basic XSLT processor to be fully
backwards compatible with XSLT 1.0.

Which I find objectionable.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire

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