>>>>> "Michael" == Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

    Michael> Although d-o-e is deprecated and may not work in all
    Michael> environments, copying unparsed HTML from a source file
    Michael> directly through to the serialized output of the
    Michael> transformation is one of the more respectable use cases
    Michael> for it.

No use of a deprecated facility can be considered respectable.
If there are use cases that require this facility, then it should AT
THE VERY LEAST, not be deprecated, and perhaps should be compulsory.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire