Re: XML 1.1 Last Call Comments from the XSL WG

/ "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com> was heard to say:
| I'm a little concerned that when you run two transformations in tandem, you
| will get different results when the result of the first transformation is
| passed directly to the second as a tree, from when it is serialized and
| re-parsed. We have always had the principle that parse(serialize(tree)) is a
| no-op. 
|
| To me, normalization and serialization are separate operations and I think
| it might be a mistake to couple them.

I think you might be right. And it might be the case that XSLT users
will need/want (at user option, perhaps) the ability to construct result
trees that are normalized "in memory".

However, I don't see how that issue is related to the XML Core WG. The
interface between the XSL and Core WGs (as I see it) is a document
labelled XML 1.0 or XML 1.1. The XSLT implementors in-memory
representation of a document is neither. Heck, it might not even be
well formed XML!

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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