Re: doe alternative?

> In terms of processing (as todays mail shows)
> they are all identical post parse?

depends if you get as far as parsing.

If the stylesheet says
<xsl:if test="contains($x,&quot;a='2'&quot;)"><foo/></xsl:if>
then the result would contain or not <foo/> depending on the details of
the systems XML linerisation method. So the output on different systems
wouldn't be identical at all.

> I can't see how this is a source of incompatibility David?

See above.

Probably more importantly than the incompatibility, this would force the
system to have _some_ method of writing out a tree in linear XML syntax.
Currently everything to do with output is optional, an XSLT system might
just do DOM-DOM transforms and never linearise anything at all, ignoring
any hints in xsl:output.

David

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