Re: Disable output-escaping

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Subject: Re: Disable output-escaping
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 14:44:21 -0500

At 12:56 PM 1/25/2005, you wrote:

   Wendell> A reason it is optional is that serializers are optional,
    Wendell> and if an implementor builds an engine with no
    Wendell> expectation that the result tree will be written out to a
    Wendell> file, how is it to be handled?

What about character maps then? They require a serializer too, and are
not optional.

It's a good question. I'm sure someone from the committee will be along shortly, though I have to admit that if you're not implementing a serializer, character maps would seem gratuitous. The spec does explicitly call in the XSLT and XQuery Serialization spec when discussing them.

From the bleachers, it appears that (a) the intention may be that we use character maps for most or all the evil things we sometimes do with d-o-e in XSLT 1.0, and that (b) d-o-e's deprecation may have something to do with the fact that, as the spec notes [XSLT 2.0 20.2], "This feature requires an extension to the serializer described in [XSLT and XQuery Serialization]"; accordingly if you want your processor to support d-o-e, not just any conformant serializer will do.

Cheers,
Wendell


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