It seems it has a different meaning from what I thought.

It actually means changing a program's behavior at runtime.

What I meant was simply commenting out the relevant code rather than coming up
with a nicer solution... The more you know.

Willem


On Jul 30, 2020, 12:12, at 12:12, "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>It's a new one on me too, but it's in the dictionary:
>
>https://www.yourdictionary.com/monkey-patch
>
>Not sure what the difference is from a regular patch.
>
>Michael Kay
>Saxonica
>
>> On 30 Jul 2020, at 10:51, Michele R Combs mrrothen@xxxxxxx
><xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>> "monkey patch" ?
>>
>> Michele
>>
>> Sent from Nine <http://www.9folders.com/>
>> From: "Willem Van Lishout willemvanlishout@xxxxxxxxx"
><xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, July 30, 2020 4:07 AM
>> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: Re:  Source code formatting
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>> Thanks everyone.
>> What I did is monkey patch Xerces to skip the normalization for
>attributes....