RE: RE: Saxon's handling of line breaks

> However, I think he spoke a little hastily in each of these
> two sentences:
>
> > The XSLT specification doesn't give the
> > processor license to do anything else.
>
> No, the XSLT specification doesn't forbid outputting CR, LF,
> or CRLF; any of
> these is fine, because they will all be interpreted the same by an XML
> parser.

We were talking about <xsl:output method="text"/>. The spec says that this
outputs the string-value of every text node in the result tree without any
escaping. I don't see any licence there to translate LF to CRLF.
>
> > If you want to output CRLF, you must do it
> > explicitly, by
> > writing <xsl:text>
> > </xsl:text>.
>
The character references & # x d ; & # x a; got lost in transit.

Michael Kay
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