RE: What happens to embedded stylesheets

> From: www-xml-xinclude-comments-request@w3.org
> [mailto:www-xml-xinclude-comments-request@w3.org]On Behalf Of Martin
> Bryan
> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2000 8:59 AM
> To: Jonathan Marsh; www-xml-xinclude-comments@w3.org
> Subject: Re: What happens to embedded stylesheets
>
>
> Jonathon
> >
> > Note that I don't have a good answer for you about what this means.  The
> > stylesheet pi rec states: "The xml-stylesheet processing instruction is
> > allowed only in the prolog of an XML document."  So I would expect the
> > nested pis to either generate an error or be ignored, but only
> when being
> > interpreted by a browser.  This is not an XML nor inclusion error.
>
> Thanks for your response. This is the bit that is important. I'd
> forgotten this "minor factor" and I suspect others will have too.
> The question, therefore, becomes "Should xml-stylesheet PIs be
> stripped from included trees as they are never valid inside
> another element?"

No.

Because

1) an XInclude processor is not supposed to know about specifics of certain
PIs,

2) you might actually want to do something with the PI later -- maybe you
use Xinclude to put something into a container tag, and later it gets
extracted into a standalone XML document again. Then you certainly want to
preserve the PI.

Julian