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Hi Uche,
On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 15:59:46 -0600
Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com> wrote:
> ...
>
> > > > * Controversal: XSieve supports entities in output.
> > >
> > > Why is that controversial? If the entities are created by extension
> > > elements, it should be perfectly legitimate.
> >
> > Yes, it's legitimate, but entities are foreign to XSLT, and creating
> > entities is something of the same style as disable-output-escaping.
>
> Hmm. I'm not sure I see why. Does specifying CDATA section elements in
> output fall under this umbrella as well?
I think no. I haven't heard of misuse of CDATA.
> I don't think anyone says it's
> bad to ever use disable-output-escaping. I think it's more that people
> know that using it is *almost always* a result of the user's not quite
> knowing what they are doing. If someone knows what they're doing, I
> don't see a problem in specifying entities for output.
I'm fully agree with you. And I think that generating entities is yet
another example of "not quite knowing" vs "knowing" issue.
> ...
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> Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc.
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