Re: [xsl] xsl/xslt coding standard

[Jeni Tennison <jeni at jenitennison dot com>]

Hi Steve,

> For the XSLT Standard Library, which is all about establishing
> engineering standards for XSLT stylesheets, I adapted Norm Walsh's
> DocBook-in-XSLT approach. It seems to work just fine, and I haven't
> observed any problems requiring xsl:fallback.

I think that's probably because you put all the documentation at the
top level of the stylesheet. If you tried to include it within a
template then you would either get the documentation added to the
result or get an error (if you asserted the documentation namespace
was a namespace for extension elements).

> If exclude-result-prefixes works OK, why introduce something new?

exclude-result-prefixes doesn't work OK, or at least it doesn't work
OK if (a) you want to put documentation *within* templates and (b) you
don't want to have to nest it inside an instruction that guarantees it
won't be processed [such as an xsl:if test="false()" or an
xsl:for-each select="/.."].

Cheers,

Jeni

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