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Re: [xsl] Initial whitespace in PI from XSLT, main body

2022-05-08 14:22:17
Do we want the behavior of almost all current XML processing tools to
suddenly become "incompliant"?


  Wendell is proposing an application-level house style for use of
processing instructions, a rule for the next level up the protocol stack,
which is perfectly legitimate.

Sorry, this sounds completely not understandable:

  1. What is "application-level house style"?

  2. What is "a rule for the next level up the protocol stack" ?

And why are we dealing at such a level of detail of a relatively simple
feature, when there are much more serious issues with some specifications,
like being 1100 pages long and probably lacking a single reader who has
read them all and has grasped the intended (???) meaning?

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Sun, May 8, 2022 at 12:02 PM Michael Kay mike(_at_)saxonica(_dot_)com <
xsl-list-service(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com> wrote:


Do we want the behavior of almost all current XML processing tools to
suddenly become "incompliant"?


Wendell is proposing an application-level house style for use of
processing instructions, a rule for the next level up the protocol stack,
which is perfectly legitimate.

In fact I've heard others propose a stronger convention, namely that
processing instructions should use the syntax of attribute="value" pairs,
as in an element start tag: that's the design convention used for the
xml-stylesheet processing instruction.

Michael Kay
Saxonica



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