Fwd: RE: Rendering of UBL Instances

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>]

The following is feedback received earlier this month regarding the 
question of adding stylesheet reference information into the document model 
for UBL instances.

A response is expected from us by David.

.................. Ken

>From: "Burdett, David" <david.burdett@commerceone.com>
>To: "'G. Ken Holman'" <gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com>
>Cc: "Probert, Sue" <Sue.Probert@commerceone.com>,
>    "'ubl-fpsc-comment@lists.oasis-open.org'"
>         <ubl-fpsc-comment@lists.oasis-open.org>
>Subject: RE: Rendering of UBL Instances
>Date: Wed, 7 May 2003 14:54:11 -0700
>
>Ken
>
>Thanks for the feedback. However using processing instructions causes
>problems as, for example, PI's are banned from SOAP [1]. Since I can
>envisage that putting a UBL document inside SOAP enevelope will be one of
>the main ways in which UBL documents will be transported I think this is a
>significant restriction which should be avoided.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>David
>
>
>[1] http://www.w3.org/TR/soap12-part1/#soapenv (note this is now a proposed
>recommendation)
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: G. Ken Holman [mailto:gkholman@CraneSoftwrights.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, May 07, 2003 2:39 PM
>To: Burdett, David
>Cc: Probert, Sue
>Subject: Re: Rendering of UBL Instances
>
>
>Hi David!
>
>At 2003-05-06 18:49 -0700, Burdett, David wrote:
> >I've just spotted this email on the archives. Can you direct me to the W3C
> >standard that already provides this functionality.
>
>http://www.w3.org/TR/xml-stylesheet/
>
> >If, as you say, this meets the requirement then following a pre-existing
> >standard is definitely the way to go.
>
>I hope you find it useful ... you can add this PI to any XML document to
>indicate to the recipient your recommendation for the stylesheet to apply
>to the content.  In my opinion this approach is superior to making the
>stylesheet reference a first-class construct in the XML vocabulary.
>
>IE supports this W3C Recommendation.  If you are running on Windows, create
>the files indicated by the following and you will see XML rendered in IE
>using HTML according to the indicated stylesheet, but doing a View/Source
>will show the XML source and not the intermediate result.
>
>Please let me know if you have any questions, David ... I hope this helps.
>
>.................... Ken
>
>X:\samp>type hello.xml
><?xml version="1.0"?>
><?xml-stylesheet type="text/xsl" href="hello.xsl"?>
><greeting>Hello world.</greeting>
>X:\samp>type hello.xsl
><?xml version="1.0"?><!--hello.xsl-->
><!--XSLT 1.0 - http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/training -->
>
><xsl:transform xmlns:xsl="http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform"
>                 version="1.0">
>
><xsl:output method="xml" omit-xml-declaration="yes"/>
>
><xsl:template match="/">
>      <b><i><u><xsl:value-of select="greeting"/></u></i></b>
></xsl:template>
>
></xsl:transform>
>
>X:\samp>explorer hello.xml
>
>X:\samp>


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