Re: An interoperability problem?

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

/ John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com> was heard to say:
| Norman Walsh wrote:
| 
| > Now, the greedy processor is going to retrieve these stylesheets:
| > 
| >   http://example.com/a.xsl
| >   file:///stylesheets/bPrime.xsl
| > 
| > But the lazy processor is going to retrieve:
| > 
| >   file:///stylesheets/aPrime.xsl
| >   file:///stylesheets/bPrime.xsl
| > 
| > I don't see any way out of this interoperability problem: I don't
| > think we can say either of these processors is "wrong" in some way [...].
| 
| No, what is wrong is the document.  If you make reference to something
| catalog-relevant before declaring your catalog, you cannot expect
| consistent results.

I suppose this is one possible answer. But I don't find it very
satisfying.

| Or did you mean to say that Greedy will fetch example.com/a.xsl and
| example.com/b.xsl?

Nope.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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