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Question about generation of the XML declaration
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- Subject: [xsl] Question about generation of the XML declaration
- From: Daniel Veillard <veillard at redhat dot com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 08:12:43 -0500
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Question: when outputting as XML, should the XSLT processor
generate an XML declaration when for example no
xsl:output is defined ?
The spec says
"The xml output method should output an XML declaration unless
the omit-xml-declaration attribute has the value yes."
However it seems a lot of examples I have found floating around
expect the XML declaration to not be generated in the output even
if there is no xsl:output element or if it doesn't specify
the omit-xml-declaration attribute. This is the case for example
D.2 Data Example from the spec itself, the SVG output.
I didn't found any relevant entry in the FAQ nor the errata.
So did I missed something from the spec ? Or is this a deviation
from implementations when there is no xsl:output in the style
and that omit-xml-declaration, standalone and encoding are undefined ?
Daniel
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