[Serial] Re: [xsl] Preserving character entities

David Carlisle wrote:


> except that currently saxon mplements the last draft which said that if
> you specify an encoding and then specify you don't want the
> xml-declaration that you get the declaration anyway (as in XSLT 1)
> 
> the new draft (following at least in part from a public comment from
> me) says that xslt should do what you ask and not give you an xml
> declaration in this case.
> 
> Any XML parser would then be required to correctly default this to
> utf-8.
> 

I would like to make a formal comment that this is wrong. The serializer 
should not output a malformed document. Currently, the spec says:

A serialization error results if the omit-xml-declaration parameter has 
the value yes, and

     * the standalone attribute has a value other than none; or
     * the version parameter has a value other than 1.0 and the 
doctype-system parameter is specified.

The serializer MUST signal the error.

I suggest a third bullet point be added along these lines:

    * the encoding attribute has a value other than "utf-8" or utf-16"

I do not see why encoding should be singled out here from standalone and 
  version. It makes more sense to simply signal an error on any 
impossible case.

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Received on Thursday, 25 November 2004 16:32:58 UTC