- From: John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 13:59:07 -0400
- To: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@metalab.unc.edu>
- CC: xml-dev@lists.xml.org, www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote: > An XSLT processor is a tree-to-tree transformation. The XML > declaration is not part of the tree. It is produced only as part of > the final, optional serialization of the document. Assuming the > Blueberry declaration is part of the XML declaration, it would not > be chosen until the entire output tree was available for inspection > so that the presence or absence of Bluebbery characters could be > definitively ascertained. What's more (unless I am forgetting something), no name can be generated in the output unless it appeared as a name in the input, either the stylesheet or the source. Blueberryness, therefore, is contagious. -- There is / one art || John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> no more / no less || http://www.reutershealth.com to do / all things || http://www.ccil.org/~cowan with art- / lessness \\ -- Piet Hein
Received on Friday, 13 July 2001 13:59:24 UTC