- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2001 14:34:03 -0700 (Pacific Daylight Time)
- To: Chris Lilley <chris@w3.org>
- cc: "'www-style@w3.org'" <www-style@w3.org>
On Wed, 27 Jun 2001, Chris Lilley wrote: > > Ian Hickson wrote: > >> On Tue, 26 Jun 2001, Jeffrey Yasskin wrote: >>> >>> By the way, the type attribute of the xml-stylesheet PI is required. See >>> http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/. >> >> No, it is not. See: >> http://www.w3.org/1999/06/REC-xml-stylesheet-19990629/errata > > Sheesh! Well spotted. I was unaware of that 'erratum' and would have > objected if I had known about it. It seems to have been added without > consideration of the implementations which had faithfully implemented > the original Recommendation and which thus require this > pseudo-attribute. > > Making it optional means that editing tools have no way to figure out if > a stylesheet is CSS or XSL other than by attemptig to resolve the URL. > This is not a good idea. How else do you propose linking to a document without knowing its MIME type in advance? -- Ian Hickson )\ _. - ._.) fL Invited Expert, CSS Working Group /. `- ' ( `--' The views expressed in this message are strictly `- , ) - > ) \ personal and not those of Netscape or Mozilla. ________ (.' \) (.' -' ______
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