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Re: Non-well-formed HTML in XSL
- From: Mike Brown <mike at skew dot org>
- To: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
- Date: Thu, 18 Jul 2002 17:13:50 -0600 (MDT)
- Subject: Re: [xsl] Non-well-formed HTML in XSL
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McNally, David wrote:
> > It is a pity that serialization is so tighly intermingled
> > with transformation in the minds of so many people, even
> > though the XSLT spec did reasonably good in separating
> > the issues.
>
> Well, the spec does say that "This specification defines the syntax and
> semantics of XSLT, which is a language for transforming XML documents into
> other XML documents." It doesn't say it's for transforming one in-memory
> data model to another, though I suppose it should have.
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#section-Introduction
"A transformation expressed in XSLT describes rules for transforming a
source tree into a result tree"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#output
"An XSLT processor may output the result tree as a sequence of bytes,
although it is not required to be able to do so"
http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#conformance
"A conforming XSLT processor must be able to use a stylesheet to transform a
source tree into a result tree as specified in this document. A conforming
XSLT processor need not be able to output the result in XML or in any other
form."
- Mike
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