Re: First Editors' draft of XML Stylesheet PI 2e

On Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:20:29 +0200, François Yergeau  
<francois@yergeau.com> wrote:

> Simon Pieters a écrit :
>> Could you elaborate on why you think this would be better?
>
> The stated intent (para just above section 4) is to make the definition  
> of "Processing instructions with pseudo-attributes" (hereinafter PIPAs)  
> reusable by other specs.  But such other specs may not want PIs that are  
> not PIPAs to be ignored, they may want them to be treated differently or  
> whatever.

Ok. Maybe we could make the PIPA algorithm either return a list of  
pseudo-attributes or an error.


> In fact, thinking about it more, it seems that this is also what we want  
> in this spec.  We want to provide a way to recognize (and act upon)  
> certain PIs, but we certainly do not want to force user agents to ignore  
> any other PIs.  Yet, as the draft stands, it appears to force user  
> agents wanting to claim conformance to this spec to completely ignore  
> any PI that is not a PIPA, anywhere in the document. We should be  
> careful to say something like "...must ignore for purposes of stylesheet  
> linking" or something like that.

Indeed.

-- 
Simon Pieters
Opera Software

Received on Thursday, 17 September 2009 08:58:44 UTC