- From: Henry Zongaro <zongaro@ca.ibm.com>
- Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 10:51:18 -0400
- To: "Deborah Cawkwell" <deborah.cawkwell@bbc.co.uk>
- Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
Deborah,
In [1], you submitted the following comment on the Last Call Working
Draft of XSLT 2.0 and XQuery 1.0 Serialization.
> 4.5 XML Output Method: the omit-xml-declaration Parameter
> http://www.w3.org/TR/2003/WD-xslt-xquery-serialization-20031112/#N105F3
>
> This says: "The omit-xml-declaration parameter must be ignored if the
> standalone parameter is present, or if the encoding parameter specifies
> a value other than UTF-8 or UTF-16."
>
> I would like to control the output of the omit-xml-declaration
> parameter, where the encoding parameter specifies a value other than
> UTF-8 or UTF-16. I often don't use Unicode. I would like the option
> to output with non-standard encoding as XHTML. The XHTML standard (
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/) specifies that "an XML declaration is
> not required in all XML documents"; it is often desirable to omit
> it, given that it is known that there are unexpected results with
> some user agents.
Thank you for your comment.
The XSL and XQuery Working groups discussed your comment. As
originally written, XML 1.0 required an XML declaration or a text
declaration if the encoding of the document or external general parsed
entity was anything other than UTF-8 or UTF-16. XSLT 1.0 enforced that
requirement in its serialization mechanism. The draft of Serialization
inherited that behaviour from XSLT 1.0. However, an erratum to XML 1.0
removed that requirement.
In response to your comment, the working groups decided to require
the XML declaration or text declaration to be omitted, regardless of the
setting of the encoding parameter. Serialization will permit an XML
declaration or text declaration to be omitted in precisely those
circumstances in which it can be omitted according to XML 1.0 and XML 1.1.
This would affect both the xml and xhtml output methods.
As that is the change you requested, I believe that decision will be
acceptable to you. May I ask you to confirm that it is?
Thanks,
Henry [On behalf of the XSL and XQuery Working Groups.]
[1]
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2004Feb/0996.html
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