Re: Proposed Core WG response to Stylesheet PI issue/bug 14689

ht@inf.ed.ac.uk (Henry S. Thompson) writes:
> This looks good to me.  You might also want to add a pointer to
>
>   http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Sep/0041.html
>
> which gives evidence that ~10% of XML in the University of Amsterdam
> XML on the Web Corpus contains <?xml-stylesheet type='text/xsl' ...?>

  The XML Core Working Group objects to the decision to mark
  discussion of the XML stylesheet PI with type='text/xsl' as either
  "RESOLVED LATER" or "HTML.next".

  The stylesheet PI is widely supported and has been in use for a long
  time. It is an important part of the browser API. Some test cases[1]
  for the XML stylesheet PI with type='text/xsl' have been attached to
  the bug report[2].

  In a sampling of the University of Amsterdam XML Web Collection,
  more than 10% of the documents[3] have an XML stylesheet PI with
  type='text/xsl'.

  The XML Core WG remains concerned that the absence of a mention
  of support for the XML stylesheet PI with type='text/xsl' would
  serve to discourage users from taking advantage of the existing
  functionality and might set implementers on a path towards
  deprecating the feature.

  The XML Core WG feels strongly that some mention of support
  for the XML stylesheet PI with type='text/xsl' or
  type='application/xslt+xml' needs to be included in the
  initial HTML5 Recommendation.

  [1] http://www.w3.org/XML/2011/11/ssTests/
  [2] https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/attachment.cgi?id=1046
  [3] http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xml-core-wg/2012Sep/0041.html

Any other comments, or should I ship it?

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
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