[xml/sgml-pkgs] Bug#589875: Bug#589875: libxslt1.1: should output encoding declaration with method=xml

[Mike Hommey]

On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 02:41:20PM +0000, brian m. carlson wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 22, 2010 at 09:55:09AM +0200, Mike Hommey wrote:
> > And the XML spec says in substance that if the encoding is UTF-8 or
> > UTF-16, you don't need an encoding declaration.
> 
> I understand this.  That's why it's a should, not a must.  It's just
> making it more explicit.
> 
> > Is there a hidden problem you're not mentioning and you are trying to
> > solve?
> 
> Not really.  The only perk is that it makes text (that is, XML-unaware)
> comparisons work a little better when comparing them with the output of
> Xalan (and Saxon), which I often do to test my stylesheet code.
> 
> If you decide that you don't want to implement this, that's okay.  I
> figured it was an improvement overall with no real downsides and
> something that it would take me all of fifteen minutes to fix, so I did
> it.

I'm not really intested in diverging from upstream for such matters, and
I'm not really convinced upstream would take it for the same reason I
wouldn't. But please feel free to make your case on xslt at gnome.org.

Cheers,

Mike