Re: Well-formed Blueberry

[John Cowan <jcowan@reutershealth.com>]

Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:

 > An XSLT processor is a tree-to-tree transformation. The XML
 > declaration is not part of the tree. It is produced only as part of
 >  the final, optional serialization of the document. Assuming the
 > Blueberry declaration is part of the XML declaration, it would not
 > be chosen until the entire output tree was available for inspection
 >  so that the presence or absence of Bluebbery characters could be
 > definitively ascertained.

What's more (unless I am forgetting something), no name can be
generated in the output unless it appeared as a name in the input,
either the stylesheet or the source.  Blueberryness, therefore,
is contagious.

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