RE: Self-descriptive assertions

Hello Mark,

> /me reads over his conclusions
> 
> Ah, was it this that you were responding to?
> 
> ""
> IE's behaviour regarding namespace dispatch alone is 
> consistent, yet when a no-op stylesheet is applied, either 
> the media type appears to be implicitly coerced or 
> namespace-dispatch is activated. I can think of no non-bug 
> explanation for why that might be the case.
> ""

Yes indeed... there appeared to be an implicit expectation of what
processing should take place (which afaict is one of the topics on this
thread). 

> Well, if the result of the transformation has no associated 
> media type, then either a) whatever receives those results is 
> adding a media type which is different than the original one, 
> b) namespace dispatch is being activated as a result of the 
> transform taking place, or
> c) some other funkiness.

wrt a) whatever receives those results is processing them in an application
specific manner. It may not be 'inventing' media-type - I mean... how could
you tell? It's an internal matter for the recipient of the original
representation inc. media-type.

wrt b) how can you tell that any namespace dispatch is occuring... results
for test 4 rather suggest that the root namespace of the result is ignored.

Cheers

Stuart
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Received on Wednesday, 31 March 2004 11:29:12 UTC