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

Looks shippable to me.

paul

On 2012-10-10 11:07, Norman Walsh wrote:
> 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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