The "identity transformation" is NOT defined as an identity function
but a side effect of the definition of XPath and XSLT and assuming that
the XSLt processor provides serialization.
Pardon my ignorance. Doesn't xsltproc provide serialization?
It will not do identity for all the items possibly present in the
initial infoset or serailization and not represented by the
XPath data model.
Aren't comments and PIs represented in the XPath data model?
From the XPath spec:
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-Comment-Nodes
"There is a comment node for every comment, except for any comment that
occurs within the document type declaration."
http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath#section-Processing-Instruction-Nodes
"There is a processing instruction node for every processing instruction,
except for any processing instruction that occurs within the document type
declaration."
You're IMHO both wrong and a bit pedant :-)
I'd love to be really wrong on this. :o) Probably other people also could
clarify this question.
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