RE: Question about xsl-xslt

> > My sequence in Saxon is:
>
> Is that your "It was vague and so I implemented something that seemed
> sensible" answer or your "I'm in the XSL WG and it is so" answer?

I don't think it's especially clear in the spec, but I came to the
conclusion this was the sequence that made most sense.

I think it's justified on the basis that section 3.4 says whitespace is
stripped after the tree is constructed but before it is "otherwise processed
by XSLT": I think validation counts as "otherwise processed". Similarly,
section 3 says "processing instructions and comments are ignored": ignoring
something doesn't count as "processing" in my book, so I ignore them for all
purposes including identification of whitespace text nodes.

But I've made the mistake before of thinking that the spec means what it
says...

Mike Kay
Software AG


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