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RE: The triples datamodel -- was Re: Semantic

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• Subject: RE: The triples datamodel -- was Re: Semantic Web permathread, iteration n+1
• From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@C...>
• Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 10:19:45 -0400
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At 2004-06-08 16:07 -0700, Joshua Allen wrote:
> > browsers support different bits of CSS, and even XSLT had a couple of
> > implementation differences you can fall over last time I had much to
>do
>
>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.

I think it is suicide trying to work with it.

I tell my students that if they think they need to use d-o-e, then think 
again and then think a third time because it is so very rarely needed.

In my personal experience there are only two use cases:

(1) - the synthesis of a declaration subset for the support of unparsed 
entity and notation declarations in the resulting XML

(2) - when an HTML stream has been captured in XML using escaping and it 
needs to be emitted without escaping (this does *not* include hacking a 
single   character)

I don't think I've every used it for anything else, and I can't think of 
anywhere else it is needed because what was needed couldn't be done with 
off-the-shelf XSLT.

Note that neither of the above two cases is required when the XSLT 
processor is used to create XSL-FO, and indeed some of my students have 
been burned thinking they can use d-o-e as a lazy way of creating markup 
and are surprised when the markup isn't recognized by the XSL-FO process.

..................... Ken

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