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thanks for explaining. and I was right - it was a stupid question :) --jan On Wed, 27 Oct 2004 15:57:10 +0100, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > michael, this might be a very stupid question - but what is a > > xslt serializer? > > > > It's the piece of software that takes the result tree generated by your > stylesheet and turns it into a stream of characters (or bytes) representing > an XML or HTML document, under the control of the xsl:output declarations. > > The significance is that you don't have to invoke the XSLT serializer. For > example, if you run a transformation in Mozilla the result tree is passed > straight to the HTML rendering engine, without first serializing it. > Similarly, in the MSXML world you often send the transformation result to a > DOM and then use the DOM serializer, which doesn't understand things like > xsl:output and disable-output-escaping. > > > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/ > > -- Jan http://www.limpens.com Otakoo Saloon Cartoon - newest episode at http://limpens.com/oscredirect
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