Q: literal comments in style sheet

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

I am examining xslt 1.0 (as documented at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt).

I have seen notes elsewhere to a 1.1, but I don't see such a beast at the
above site. Is there an XSLT 1.1, (perhaps it is XPath 1.1 I have seen)
or am I just confused?

I am curious about some literal things in the style sheets.

Is there an option that controls the passing of _literal_ comments and
PI's to the output?

I know I could use xsl:comment to output a comment, but I am not trying to
output anything, I am just trying to make sure I understand the specs.

As far as I can see, literal comments and processing instructions in the
style sheet are never output.
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[David Carlisle]

yf***@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones) writes:

I am examining xslt 1.0 (as documented at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt).

I have seen notes elsewhere to a 1.1, but I don't see such a beast at the
above site. Is there an XSLT 1.1, (perhaps it is XPath 1.1 I have seen)
or am I just confused?
There was a draft (still available from w3c site) but the working group
killed off work on xslt 1.1 to work on 2.0 (before they knew 2.0 was
going to take half a decade to align with xquery:-) A couple of xslt
systems (notably saxon 6.x do implement the 1.1 draft actually) but as
it will never be finalised now it's best to pretend that they don't.

I am curious about some literal things in the style sheets.

Is there an option that controls the passing of _literal_ comments and
PI's to the output?
No.

I know I could use xsl:comment to output a comment, but I am not trying to
output anything, I am just trying to make sure I understand the specs.

As far as I can see, literal comments and processing instructions in the
style sheet are never output.

True.

David

[Malcolm Dew-Jones]

David Carlisle (da****@nag.co.uk) wrote:
: yf***@vtn1.victoria.tc.ca (Malcolm Dew-Jones) writes:

: > I am examining xslt 1.0 (as documented at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt).
: >
: > I have seen notes elsewhere to a 1.1, but I don't see such a beast at the
: > above site. Is there an XSLT 1.1, (perhaps it is XPath 1.1 I have seen)
: > or am I just confused?

: There was a draft (still available from w3c site) but the working group
: killed off work on xslt 1.1 to work on 2.0 (before they knew 2.0 was
: going to take half a decade to align with xquery:-) A couple of xslt
: systems (notably saxon 6.x do implement the 1.1 draft actually) but as
: it will never be finalised now it's best to pretend that they don't.

: >
: > I am curious about some literal things in the style sheets.
: >
: > Is there an option that controls the passing of _literal_ comments and
: > PI's to the output?

: No.

: >
: > I know I could use xsl:comment to output a comment, but I am not trying to
: > output anything, I am just trying to make sure I understand the specs.
: >
: > As far as I can see, literal comments and processing instructions in the
: > style sheet are never output.
: >
: True.

: David

thanks

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