RE: Question about xsl-xslt

> but (I think) the requirements on "empty" elements that occur 
> at several
> places in the spec relate to the stylesheet before white space
> stripping. 

Hmmm... an interesting conjecture.

My sequence in Saxon is:

- remove comments and PIs
- merge adjacent text nodes
- strip white space text nodes
- validate that elements are empty

Mike Kay
Software AG

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