Unless anybody has anything to add, I would suggest this
is correct. The key point here is that you are serialising
via a character stream. If at any future point you are
likely to send the result direct to a SAX handler or an
in-memory DOM tree, you will not get the result you expect!
Check out the FAQ and archives for lots of reasons why
d-o-e is bad.
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Danny Yates
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-----Original Message-----
From: Cams Ismael [mailto:Ismael(_dot_)Cams(_at_)siemens(_dot_)atea(_dot_)be]
Sent: 16 January 2003 12:05
To: 'xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com'
Subject: RE: [xsl] Generating variable DOCTYPE
3) Use d-o-e but be aware of what you are doing -
specifically, almost the only case where you will get
what you want is if you serialise the result to a
character stream.
So if I serialize my output into a file there would be no problem by using
d-o-e ?
What my application does is it takes an xml file and transforms this file
into
another xml file. This result file is used by another application which uses
an
SAX parser. Can there raise problems in this process when I use d-o-e ?
Ismaël
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