Re: Re[5]: WG: [xslt] decimal char problem - possible Solution

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 02:11:01PM -0400, Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams wrote:
> > 1/ Shall we fix htmlEncodeEntities() to only generate entities
> >     accepted by all browsers, what is the list one should deprecate ?
> >    The list in html40EntitiesTable[] is fairly long.
> 
> -1. This sounds wrong.

  Be lax in what you accept and stric in what you generate has been
a design rule at the IETF for years. this is in that perspective.

> > 2/ Or should we try to provide an alternative encoding name "htmlcompat"
> >    generating ISOLatin1 and the entity subset ?
> 
> -1. Major breakage, no?

  no because nobody would use 
    <xsl:output method="html" encoding="htmlcompat"/> 
whithout knowing what they are doing. No breakage from my point of view.

> > 3/ Or should people just use encoding="ISO-8859-1" and make sure charrefs
> >    in this case are encoded decimally ?
> 
> -1. See my response to point 1.

  which wasn't an argumented response and so is this one.

> > 4/ Any other option ? like sticking to what Xalan or Saxon does.
> 
> How about supplementing <xsl:output/> with another attribute
> (enttype="[hex|dec|char]") or another tag (<exslt:output/>)?

  in essence making the input not compliant to either XSLT or EXSLT,
*that* is seriously wrong IMHO.

Daniel

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