Re: [xslt] <?php ... ?> and <xsl:output method="html">

[Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com>]

On Tue, Feb 04, 2003 at 08:52:27PM -0600, Brett Kail wrote:
> So, would
> 
> 	<xsl:output method="php"/>
> 
> or
> 
> 	<xsl:output method="php"
> 		xmlns:libxsl="http://www.xmlsoft.org/???";
> 		libxsl:method="php"/>
> 
> extensions (that do the same as method="html" except outputs
> processing instructions, or even just the php processing instruction,
> with a closing '?') be acceptable?  Having looked at the HTMLtree.c

  Clearly no. Either add the extra ? or serialize as XML.

> code, I think that an htmlNodeDumpExtendedOutput function could be
> added that has control over the PI output and is called by
> htmlNodeDumpFormatOutput could work.  Would either extension (or
> similar) be accepted if I worked on it?


 <?...?> is not a processing instruction of the target language.
 Adding yet another layer of serilization API to handle this corner case
is not a sensible thing to do.

Daniel

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