RE: running msxml3 from command line

["Chris Bayes" <Chris at Bayes dot co dot uk>]

>
>Chris,
>
>The reason that your stylesheet is breaking is that the newest MSXSL
>processor is more strictly conformant.  xsl:apply-templates
>instructions may
>not contain PCDATA nodes (only xsl:with-param or xsl:sort element nodes)
>according to the spec.  Since the xsl:apply-templates instruction has an
>xml:space="preserve" attribute in-scope, the whitespace nodes surrounding
>the xsl:with-param instructions are preserved, and thus the error.
>

Yes I see that.

>In the opinion of you and other list-dwellers:
>1. Is this truly the conformant behavior? (in which case XT and Saxon have
>bugs)
>2. Even if it is conformant, should processors enforce this, as it is quite
>inconvenient to work around?  Maybe invalid whitespace-only nodes within
>instructions should just be ignored.
>

I don't see why I have to do this

<xsl:template match="/">open <xsl:value-of select="$host" />
<xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$username" />
<xsl:text>&#xA;</xsl:text>
<xsl:value-of select="$password" />

and then on the other hand have problems with for instance this

<a>
	<xsl:attribute name="href">
		<xsl:value-of select="link" />
	</xsl:attribute>
</a>

which gives this

<a href="
somelink
">

and have to do this

<a>
	<xsl:attribute name="href"><xsl:value-of select="link" /></xsl:attribute>
</a>

There doesn't seem to be any consistency here. Or is there?

TIA Chris

>~Andy Kimball
>MSXSL Dev
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Chris Bayes [mailto:Chris@Bayes.co.uk]
>Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 1:05 PM
>To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>Subject: RE: running msxml3 from command line
>
>
>I can't say without seeing your docs but that is an error from the parser
>itself not the script. I just installed the july release and am getting odd
>errors on stylesheets that did run on the last one. See
>dirtoftp.xslt. Works
>fine in xt and saxon and the last release but spits the dummy with
>Keyword xsl:apply-templates may not contain PCDATA nodes.
>ho hum
>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@mulberrytech.com]On Behalf Of Sebastian Rahtz
>>Sent: 31 July 2000 12:11
>>To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
>>Subject: running msxml3 from command line
>>
>>
>>Chris Bayes writes:
>> > sheesh i can't type
>> > oh well it is friday evening and i should be down the pub
>> > http://www.bayes.co.uk/xml/index.xml?/xml/utils/translate.xml
>> >
>>does this work for anyone? the Microsoft IE5.5 + July update which I
>>just installed says that its an invalid XML declaration
>>
>>sebastian
>>
>>
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