On Tuesday 09 July 2002 14:28, Joseph Kesselman wrote: > The point of standards is that they _ARE_ standards, and you should be very > explicit about when you're stepping outside their scope.
The problem is that the standard in question was very short sited, placing this unecessary restriction on the use of RTFs. If there were a standard extension mechanism, then I wouldn't have a problem. But there is no such standard (other than to say that it is implementation defined), which makes my stylesheets end up less conformant and portable. I guess I can't complain too much; Xalan works well, and the way I have to use <xsl:choose> and xalan:nodeset() is more of an ugly inconvenience than a real problem. Having a quirks mode would sure simplify things, and hopefully the method one would have to use to enable it would make it very explicit, as you require. -- Peter Davis
