The May 2003 draft of the 2.0 spec has generating
XHTML as the prime example of using the Simplified
Module Syntax.
Since real life use of XHTML *requires* doctypes
and the Simplified Module Syntax is incompatible
with producing the required doctypes, the example
should be changed to one where doctypes are
unnecessary and the text should explicitly warn
about the doctype issue when using this syntax.
Alternatively, you could add a way for to specify
an output doctype in the simplified syntax (useful
for the 99% XHTML case). How about giving
the obvious meaning to an xsl:doctype-public
attribute in the root element or just allowing the
top-level elements in the simplified syntax?
Reasonable point. I don't think we want to add functionality to the
simplified syntax that duplicates things you can do with the full
syntax.
Perhaps the XHTML output method should output a DOCTYPE declaration by
default.
Michael Kay
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