Re: microsoft latest, bug with extension elements?

["Sebastian Rahtz" <sebastian dot rahtz at computing-services dot oxford dot ac dot uk>]

Paul Tchistopolskii writes:
 > 
 > Because we have no else in XSLT, I assume you want 
 > the preprocessor mechanism in XSLT ? ( #ifdef )

well, no, i think you leap ahead of me. i was just fancifully wishing
I could say:

 <xsl:variable name="processor">
  <xsl:value-of select="system-property('xsl:vendor')"/>
 </xsl:variable>
 <xsl:if test="not(contains($processor,'Microsoft'))">
  <xsl:import href="extras.xsl"/>
 </xsl:if>

 > I don't think it is really needed. XSLScript , for example, 
 > can generate XSLT-processor specific java bindings
 > from some high-level 'neutral' binding construction.

true. but, being a kiddie, I don't have that extra layer around in my
simplistic "xml2html" script.

more to the point, I want to distribute my TEI stylesheets so that
they'll be useable by any processor (to the best of its ability)
without any further ado. Or, I can just

 - wait for XSLT 1.1
 - wait for processors to all be compliant

neither of which may be that long

Sebastian


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