RE: Types and Context

[Gavin Thomas Nicol <gtn@ebt.com>]

> Yes.  If you use an entity then you have to edit the stylesheet and
> the schema; if you have a type-checking mechanism, you only have to
> edit the schema. 

... and if you change the schema, surely your processing logic
would likely need some changes too? 

> My point is that as an XSLT application developer, I
> could write a stylesheet that people would not have to touch even if
> they extended/amended the schema.

I doubt this is true in anything except fairly trivial cases, and for
those cases, you could more than likely write an equivalent XPath/mode
based stylesheet.