RE: Well-formed Blueberry

Hmm,

I think an XSLT can create "any" name using xsl:element. It could be the
result of an XPath string expression (hard to predict, right?).

> -----Original Message-----
> From: John Cowan [mailto:jcowan@reutershealth.com]
> Sent: Friday, July 13, 2001 7:59 PM
> To: Elliotte Rusty Harold
> Cc: xml-dev@lists.xml.org; www-xml-blueberry-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Re: Well-formed Blueberry
>
>
> 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.
>
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Received on Friday, 13 July 2001 14:11:06 UTC