- From: James Clark <jjc@jclark.com>
- Date: Sat, 06 Nov 1999 11:00:18 +0700
- To: Larry Masinter <masinter@parc.xerox.com>
- CC: xsl-editors@w3.org, Makoto MURATA <murata.makoto@fujixerox.co.jp>, Ted Smith <Tsmith@parc.xerox.com>, Tim Berners-Lee <timbl@w3.org>
Larry Masinter wrote: > > I was told this change was trivial enough that > it wasn't necessary for us to change our vote. > ==================== > > The pseudo-attribute "type" in examples such as > > <?xml-stylesheet type="text/xml" href="#style1"?> > > should be dropped. > > The use of "type" for embedded XSLT stylesheets is not justified by > any specifications. <LINK REL="stylesheet"> in HTML 4.0 references to > EXTERNAL style sheets only. In fact, the title of the relevant subsection > is "12.3.2 Links and EXTERNAL style sheets". The recommendation > "Associating Style Sheets with XML documents" merely references to > HTML 4.0, and thus it does not allow reference to internally embedded > stylesheets. In the "Associating Style Sheets with XML documents" Recommendation, the "type" pseudo-attribute is required: > The following pseudo attributes are defined > > href CDATA #REQUIRED > type CDATA #REQUIRED > title CDATA #IMPLIED > media CDATA #IMPLIED > charset CDATA #IMPLIED > alternate (yes|no) "no" Maybe this is broken, but I don't think it's up to the XSLT spec to fix it. James
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