Re: [XBL] Loading style sheets

[Cyril Concolato]

Ian Hickson a écrit : On Wed, 6 Dec 2006, Cyril Concolato wrote: In Section 3.3 "Loading Style sheets", the specification says contradictory things: if non-XML stylesheet contains XML, it's in error, but it still needs to be processed: What is the meaning of error ? An error is when something is non-conforming. I don't understand what that has to do with whether something is processed or not. Could you elaborate on what the contradiction is? In the spec, in 99% of the case, when something is in error, it is ignored. I found few exceptions: script are evaluated and the case of non-XML stylesheet. This seems to me really weird. Plus, I think it's wrong practice to specify a behavior in case of error, because people will then design erroneous content just to get the 'weird' behavior. The example in Section 3.3 is using circular references: the id of an element is used by a script inside this element. This is really a bad example and should not be permitted. Why not forbidding this kind of content ? Why should it not be permitted? The script is executed once the element is inserted into the document. There doesn't seem to be anything poorly defined here as far as I can tell. Same as above, the content is far from being (human-)readable and relies on normative handling of erroneous content. But I won't fight for that. Cyril