Re: [XSL] extracting a verse

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Subject: Re: [XSL] extracting a verse
From: "G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2002 15:59:22 -0500

At 2002-12-19 10:16 +0000, Jeni Tennison wrote:

Hi David,

> I missed the start of this thread but is d-o-e acceptable?

...

which you could use as either the source or result of the stylesheet
(or both) as desired. I don't know if that's a worthwhile avenue to
pursue; it has the same disadvantage as d-o-e that there's no
guarantee of the well-formedness of the result.

The other problem with d-o-e= is that you only end up with element start and end tags in a serialized result, not in the result node tree.

If you have any process on the back end that works with the result node tree instead of the serialized syntax of the result node tree, that process won't see element nodes but only text nodes with that weird flag set.

Consider the "chaining" of XSLT processors where the result node tree of one process is the source node tree of the next: if you used d-o-e= to simulate elements, the following process wouldn't see elements, it would only see text.

Using d-o-e= for syntax construction will only work when you are creating physical syntax from the result tree.

I hope this helps.

................... Ken


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- Passin, Tom - Wed, 18 Dec 2002 11:49:56 -0500 (EST)
- McNally, David - Wed, 18 Dec 2002 15:41:22 -0500 (EST)
  - Wendell Piez - Wed, 18 Dec 2002 16:53:30 -0500 (EST)
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