I read that to mean that XSLT Processors are allowed to simply refuse to
implement evaluation.

Cheers,

E.
bbbbb
Eliot Kimber, Owner
Contrext, LLC
http://contrext.com




On 2/15/15, 11:52 AM, "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>Hi,
>At the end of Section "10.4.4 xsl:evaluate as an optional feature" of
>the 2nd Last Call of the W3C XSLT 3.0 specification
>(http://www.w3.org/TR/2014/WD-xslt-30-20141002/#evaluation-as-optional-fea
>ture)
>, the last paragraph says:
>
>"Processors that implement xsl:evaluate should provide mechanisms
>allowing calls on xsl:evaluate to be disabled. Implementations may
>disable the feature by default, and they may disable it
>unconditionally."
>
>My question is:
>  What is meant here by "they may disable it unconditionally" ?
>
>Is this something the XSLT processor decides by itself if a certain
>kind of event occurs, and does disabling the feature "unconditionally"
>mean that after the disablement, the feature can never be enabled
>again?
>
>--
>Cheers,
>Dimitre Novatchev