Re: [Bug 14689] xml-stylesheet with type=text/xsl needs to be handled explicitly

On 11.10.2012 18:27, Paul Grosso wrote:
> Personally, I would accept a non-normative paragraph/note
> that indicates that support for xml-stylesheet with XSLT
> is understood as being important and is planned to be
> properly specified in 5.1 (or some such).
> 
> Thoughts?

I think this is a way to go for now. Writing down tests for all edge
cases mentioned in comment 8 will take some time. And for some tests I'm
not completele sure what Ian is talking about (<script> and blocking).

I'm willing to be volunteer for collecting and writing down these tests
so we can have more precise definition of XSLT browser interaction in
HTML 5.1.

     Jirka

> paul
> 
> On 2012-10-11 11:11, bugzilla@jessica.w3.org wrote:
>>
>> *Comment # 29
>> <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14689#c29> on bug
>> 14689 <https://www.w3.org/Bugs/Public/show_bug.cgi?id=14689> from
>> Robin Berjon <mailto:robin@w3.org> *
>> (In reply tocomment #28  <show_bug.cgi?id=14689#c28>)
>> > 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].
>> > (...)
>> > 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.
>>
>> Norm,
>>
>> no one is contesting that there are people using xml-stylesheet with
>> XSLT or
>> that it is important to users who rely on it. The heart of the matter
>> is that
>> it is simply not feasible to define how it works at the requisite
>> level of
>> concision within the very small time frame we have before entering CR.
>> We are
>> fixing bugs, not taking new features.
>>
>> Please note that as soon as 5.0 hits CR, we will be issuing a FPWD or
>> 5.1 — I
>> must therefore emphasise that it is not as if all specification work
>> was about
>> to stop until 2015.
>>
>> I would be happy to work with the XML Core WG to properly specify this
>> feature
>> as part of 5.1.
>>
>> In the meantime, you seem to indicate that you might be satisfied with
>> "some
>> mention of support". Can you clarify what that would involve? Do you
>> have some
>> suggested text? Would a non-normative paragraph work for you?
>>
>> If not then I'm afraid that the next step will have to be escalation.
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