- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2002 16:03:38 +0100
- To: "'Jeni Tennison'" <jeni@jenitennison.com>, xsl-editors@w3.org
Thanks for the comment. I think the extra flags in the data model were put there largely to satisfy the rule that processing instructions and comments are ignored in a stylesheet; I don't think there has been any pressure to allow these flags to be set for source documents, though I'm sure someone would find a use for it. I hope we can avoid adding too much complexity in this area as the whitespace stripping rules already create enough problems! Mike Kay > The Data Model WD describes three flags that can be set when creating > a node tree: ignore-whitespace, ignore-comments and > ignore-processing-instructions. > > The first flag is managed (presumably) through xsl:strip-space and > xsl:preserve-space. Shouldn't there be similar XSLT declarations for > stripping and preserving comments and processing instructions? > > (It might be helpful if the processing instruction one used the name > of a processing instruction to work out whether to strip it or not as > well as or instead of the identity of the parent element.) > > Cheers, > > Jeni > --- > Jeni Tennison > http://www.jenitennison.com/ >
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