RE: FW: XSLT 2.0: XML Output Method: the omit-xml-declaration Parameter

I think (hope) that the decision of the WGs is:

When the output method is XML, an XML declaration will be output if and only
if the omit-xml-declaration parameter has the value "no". In XSLT, the
default value will be "no".

Michael Kay

> -----Original Message-----
> From: public-qt-comments-request@w3.org 
> [mailto:public-qt-comments-request@w3.org] On Behalf Of 
> Deborah Cawkwell
> Sent: 20 April 2004 09:47
> To: Henry Zongaro
> Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: RE: FW: XSLT 2.0: XML Output Method: the 
> omit-xml-declaration Parameter
> 
> 
> Great. 
> 
> To summarize XSLT will 2.0 will be consistent with XML 1.0 
> (inc erratum)
> and the inclusion of an XML prolog will not be a 'MUST'. 
> 
> Will it be a 'CAN', if I want to do it?
> 
> Thanks v much
> 
> Deborah
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Henry Zongaro [mailto:zongaro@ca.ibm.com] 
> Sent: 13 April 2004 15:51
> To: Deborah Cawkwell
> Cc: public-qt-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Re: FW: XSLT 2.0: XML Output Method: the omit-xml-declaration
> Parameter
> 
> 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-2003111
> 2/#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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> Henry Zongaro      Xalan development
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