David Carlisle (davidc@n...) wrote:
: yf110@v... (Malcolm Dew-Jones) writes:

: > I am examining xslt 1.0 (as documented at http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt).
: > 
: > I have seen notes elsewhere to a 1.1, but I don't see such a beast at the
: > above site.  Is there an XSLT 1.1, (perhaps it  is XPath 1.1 I have seen) 
: > or am I just confused?

: There was a draft (still available from w3c site) but the working group
: killed off work on xslt 1.1 to work on 2.0 (before they knew 2.0 was
: going to take half a decade to align with xquery:-) A couple of xslt
: systems (notably saxon 6.x do implement the 1.1 draft actually) but as
: it will never be finalised now it's best to pretend that they don't.

: > 
: > I am curious about some literal things in the style sheets.
: > 
: > Is there an option that controls the passing of _literal_ comments and 
: > PI's to the output?  

: No.

: > 
: > I know I could use xsl:comment to output a comment, but I am not trying to
: > output anything, I am just trying to make sure I understand the specs.
: > 
: > As far as I can see, literal comments and processing instructions in the
: > style sheet are never output.
: > 
: True.

: David

thanks

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