RE: XSLT 3.5 - top-level elements

Yes, this is an inconsistency, one which is carried forward unchanged from
the XSLT 1.0 specification. 
 
I've been hoping for some while to replace the current element proformas
with a notation based on XML Schema, but it's proved difficult to do this,
so I'll look at fixing the terminology.
 
Michael Kay

-----Original Message-----
From: Svgdeveloper@aol.com [mailto:Svgdeveloper@aol.com] 
Sent: 24 October 2002 19:42
To: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Subject: XSLT 3.5 - top-level elements


There seems to me to be an inconsistency in 3.5 relating to top-level
elements.

The content for xsl:stylesheet and xsl:transform is shown as:  "Content:
(xsl:import
<file:///C:/W3C/XSLT%202.0/XSL%20Transformations%20%28XSLT%29%20Version%202.
0%20WD%2020020816.html#element-import> *, top-level-elements)".

However, it is later stated that "An element occurring as a child of an
xsl:stylesheet
<file:///C:/W3C/XSLT%202.0/XSL%20Transformations%20%28XSLT%29%20Version%202.
0%20WD%2020020816.html#element-stylesheet>  element is called a top-level
element."

So, in the first xsl:import is distinct from a top-level element but in the
second it is a top-level element. Maybe modify the content to refer to
non-xsl:import-top-level-elements?

Andrew Watt