Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Re: needing clarification about XSL transformation

[Vitaly Ostanin <vyt@vzljot.ru>]

On Mon, 3 Mar 2003 09:07:53 -0500 (EST)
"Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> wrote:

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>   before this gets even further afield, let me stress that i
> *know* how to add extra rules to ensure processing of comments
> and processing instructions.  what i was baffled by was the
> clearly differing behaviour between xsltproc and saxon, using
> the following stylesheet (shown in its entirety):
> 
> ---------------------------
> 
> <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
> <xsl:stylesheet
>     xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>     version="1.0">
> 
> <xsl:template match="@*">
>  <xsl:copy/>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> <xsl:template match="node()">
>  <xsl:copy>
>   <xsl:apply-templates select="@* | node()" />
>  </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> 
> </xsl:stylesheet>
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 
>   given that i'm not trying to do anything fancy, it
> seems to me that using *any* XSL transformation tool 
> should give me the same output.
> 
>   but xsltproc does *not* copy over comments or
> processing instructions, while saxon *does*.  ergo,
> at least one of them is incorrect.

With this style xslt-processor must not copy comments and PI.
This style not overriding built-in templates, so saxon is
incorrect.

>   so my question is, given that the node() function
> is defined as matching comment and processing instruction
> nodes, which of these tools is behaving incorrectly?

Saxon.

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