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• To: "Joshua Allen" <joshuaa@m...>
• Subject: disable-output-escaping
• From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:56:31 -0400
• Cc: "XML Developer List" <xml-dev@l...>
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At 4:07 PM -0700 6/8/04, Joshua Allen wrote:

>The most annoying inconsistency with XSLT in-browser is the lack of
>consistent support for disable-output-escaping.  Admittedly d-o-e is a
>hack, but it's murder trying to work without it.

This is heading off-topic so I've changed the subject line.

Personally I've rarely if ever encountered a need for d-o-e, and in 
other people's stylesheets I've learned to recognize it as a code 
smell that indicates poor design and misunderstanding of XML. Why do 
you find its lack so problematic?
-- 

   Elliotte Rusty Harold
   elharo@m...
   Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003)
   http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml
   http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA

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