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RE: Special characters in comments
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Special characters in comments
- From: Jonathan Marsh <jmarsh at microsoft dot com>
- Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2000 12:26:38 -0700
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
Kay Michael wrote:
> I have a feeling Microsoft's XML parser auto-detects
> iso-8859-1 encoding. I
> suspect this contravenes the XML specification, though it is
> a very handy
> feature.
We don't do any auto-detection of encodings.
> > 2)
> > I have also noticed that I cannot use:
> > <xsl:value-of/>
> > with Saxon but I need to use
> > <xsl:value-of select = "."/>
> >
> The select attribute is mandatory according to the XSLT 1.0
> specification.
This is enforced in MSXML3. It is not enforced in the TR/WD-xsl namespace.
I pushed for this default in the WG but lost :-) The January Web Release
did not enforce it in the XSLT namespace either, which was a bug that has
been fixed in MSXML3.
- Jonathan Marsh
Microsoft
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