David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> >   I tend to disagree. Someone who is used to reading XSLT code but unused to
> >   your personal coding style will recognize <xsl:value-of select="."/> far
> >   more quickly than they recognize &content;.

Fair point.

> But the behaviour is very different. With value-of (or any element)
> the white space used for indentation is stripped, but with "stuff"
> it is not and the text node generated has content "&#10;  stuff&#10;"

Hmmm... OK. They don't tell you *that* in "SAMS Teach Yourself XML in
10 Nanoseconds" ;-)

> Also some XML parsers (notably msxml) default to validation mode when
> they see a doctype so try to validate the stylesheet which generates
> lots of spurious errors.

Also good to know.

> > The one thing nxml-mode doesn't do is tell you exactly
> > where your document becomes invalid.
>
> It sticks a big red line to mark the spot doesn't it?

Er... no.  Not here.  Maybe because I use a text console?  I'll check
it under X when I have a moment.  Thanks for all your comments.  The
&content; substitution policy is under review ;-)

sdt