It doesn't need to. It can output directly to a stream. Xalan is in no
way DOM dependent for output.
It determines if a stylesheet is meant to go to a text stream via:
<xsl:output method="text"/>, which is standard.
If you just used <TEXTROOT>, you would still get XML (with escapes, etc.),
instead of text, which is what you want, I think.
-scott
Mike Pogue
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e.org> cc: (bcc: Scott Boag/CAM/Lotus)
Subject: Re: Xerces "feature"
prevents many useful operations
12/17/99
04:11 PM
Please
respond to
xerces-dev
I suppose if Xalan knew that the output was text, it could add something
like a <TEXTROOT> node, and then strip it off on output. Does this
work?
Mike
Tom Palmer wrote:
>
> > 2. Can a text node be a child of a document node? This is a DOM
> > level 1 question, and the answer is no, which is why the Xerces
> > DOM implementation was testing for and disallowing it.
> >
> Based on that, if DOM 2 doesn't suddenly change it last minute,
> I agree with an earlier comment that XSLT can apparently produce
> documents that have nothing to do with DOM, and as such, Xalan
> should be modified, not Xerces.
>
> (Of course, I'm not official here. It's just my two bits as an
> observer.)
>
> - Tom
