Re: XSLT 1.0 support in browsers

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Subject: Re: XSLT 1.0 support in browsers
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 02 May 2007 10:55:52 -0400

At 05:21 PM 5/1/2007, Julian wrote:

there's always
<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "whatever" [
<!ATTLIST foo xml:space #IMPLIED>
]>
<foo xml:space="preserve">
....
Not that the other browsers (apart frm IE) fetch the DTD anyway.
Understood. But that defeats the idea to have a single master document that you can maintain and serve directly...

Indeed, but this is a problem that goes beyond how an attribute gets set.

<!DOCTYPE foo SYSTEM "whatever" [
<!ATTLIST foo xml:space #FIXED "preserve" >
]>
<foo>

... should also work (at least in theory).

In general, multiple declarations for the same attribute are allowed in DTDs, and the rule is "first declaration wins". So a declaration of xml:space in a document's internal subset should override (when it does not simply supplement) a declaration in an external DTD. (See http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#attdecls.)

This means that formally, there should never be a conflict, although no warrant can be made either for (a) processing that relies on other declarations or the lack thereof, and (b) parsers that are less than conformant in their behavior.

What's the problem in the case of the RFC2629 DTD? How is this problem manifested in the browser?

Cheers,
Wendell


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RE: XSLT 1.0 support in browsers, (continued) Michael Kay - 1 May 2007 21:18:39 -0000 Wendell Piez - 2 May 2007 15:18:21 -0000 Julian Reschke - 1 May 2007 21:22:31 -0000 David Carlisle - 1 May 2007 21:28:25 -0000 Wendell Piez - 2 May 2007 15:18:01 -0000 <= Michael Kay - 1 May 2007 21:16:41 -0000 Colin Adams - 2 May 2007 04:11:13 -0000

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