• From: Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@e...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2000 12:56:13 -0500

> Yes.  If you use an entity then you have to edit the stylesheet and
> the schema; if you have a type-checking mechanism, you only have to
> edit the schema. 

... and if you change the schema, surely your processing logic
would likely need some changes too? 

> My point is that as an XSLT application developer, I
> could write a stylesheet that people would not have to touch even if
> they extended/amended the schema.

I doubt this is true in anything except fairly trivial cases, and for
those cases, you could more than likely write an equivalent XPath/mode
based stylesheet.

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