RE: xslt 2 working draft

Mike Kay wrote:

> > http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#section-Summary-of-Issues
> > Issue 1: binding-to-schema
> > 
> > Description: Do we need to say anything, or add any 
> capabilities, for
> > binding a stylesheet to a schema? Presumably the names of 
> > types used in
> > variable declarations must be known statically, which implies 
> > that a schema
> > is available statically.
> > 
> > >From http://www.w3.org/TR/xmlgl#g4_0
> > 
> > 
> > 4.2 Provide a machine-understandable means/mechanism to get 
> > from a document
> > instance to the schema. 
> > 
> > I think an XSLT stylesheet stands as an XML document?
> >
> Yes, but that's not what this issue is talking about. Your 
> reference is
> talking about getting from an XML document to its own schema. 
> This issue is
> talking about whether a stylesheet should declare the class 
> (or classes) of
> source document that it is designed to process.

Surely the document class is encapsulated in the schema?

I can see the difference, and in fact the stylesheet 
may well totally change the instance elements.
the words in your issue seem to imply binding the stylesheet
to the schema, I presumed that meant to the schema of the source
document.

Regards DaveP


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Received on Thursday, 3 January 2002 11:15:37 UTC