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

[Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams <ignacio openservices net>]

On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Daniel Veillard wrote:

> > > 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.

What about when transporting the stylesheets between XSLT engines?

> > > 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.

Fair enough. Maybe I just don't understand EXSLT well enough. Ah well.

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Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams  <ignacio@openservices.net>