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RE: [xsl] [MISC] How was the XSLT 2.0 norm written (tools, format)

2010-01-22 17:31:01
If we have a look at the source for the XSLT 2.0 spec, the 
following might surprise you:

    <meta name="generator" content=
       "HTML Tidy for Mac OS X (vers 1st December 2004), see 
www.w3.org" />

The build scripts generate HTML from XML using XSLT as you would expect. As
a final step they then put the HTML through the tidy process. I've been
wanting to get rid of this step for a while because I don't think it should
be necessary: someone added it because it was easier than fixing the source
XML and/or the stylesheets whenever the combination was found to generate
invalid HTML (which generally arises through problems of nesting paragraphs
within lists within paragraphs, etc.)

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 


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