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Re: This can't be right, XML with no root element: Saxon & XT vs. Xalan
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] This can't be right, XML with no root element: Saxon & XT vs. Xalan
- From: Francis Norton <francis at redrice dot com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 19:00:07 +0100
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Michael Kay wrote:
>
> > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>(1.1) An image element
>
> The XSLT 1.0 specification is clear that the output does not have to be a
> well-formed XML document, only a well-formed external general parsed entity.
> Which means, in effect, something that would be a well-formed document if
> you put a start and end tag around it. Whether you or I happen to like this
> spec is somewhat irrelevant.
>
out of curiousity, would the above output be a well-formed external
general parsed entity, given that it starts with an xml declaration?
Francis.
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