RE: [docbook] better internationalization issues again

[Cavicchio_Rob@emc.com]

Bob Stayton [mailto:bobs@sagehill.net] wrote:

> The standards (1.0 and 2.0) say the value of the encoding 
> attribute must be 
> a string:
> 
> http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt#output
> 
> That should exclude the use of attribute value templates for 
> encoding.  I 
> don't see any mention in the Saxon doc about an extension 
> that would handle 
> AVT. Exactly how did you use a variable that worked?


Bob, you are right. I went and looked again at my XSL and I'm actually
using not "xsl:output" but "xsl:result-document", which of course is
available only in XSLT 2.0, and according to the specification it does
allow a variable for the encoding. I had *assumed* that the "encoding"
attribute value would work the same way in all places.

I had not previously understood the subtlety of attributes that accept
templates vs. those that don't. I guess I just tried it and it worked so
I went on. Thanks for enhancing my education.  :)


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