"Wendell" == Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> writes:
Wendell> I can't speak to the issue of what "deprecated" should
Wendell> mean
Well, what it means to me, as someone implementing an XSLT 2.0
processor from scratch, is that I SHOULDN'T implement it.
So I won't (although it would only take me about 10 minutes to do so)
Wendell> worth noting, again, that the problems that come with
Wendell> d-o-e are all related to the fact that, unlike almost
Wendell> everything else you do in XSLT, what this feature
Wendell> controls is the serializer that writes the output to a
Wendell> file, not the processor that generates the output (the
Wendell> "result tree") to begin with.
Wendell> A reason it is optional is that serializers are optional,
Wendell> and if an implementor builds an engine with no
Wendell> expectation that the result tree will be written out to a
Wendell> file, how is it to be handled?
What about character maps then? They require a serializer too, and are
not optional.
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Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire
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