On Thu, Nov 4, 2010 at 2:16 PM, Alex Milowski <a...@milowski.org> wrote: >> >> WebKit currently applies XSLT to document source, not to pre-built DOM. This >> is different from Firefox, but in strict compliance to the spec. > > WebKit currently applies XSLT to a serialization of the pre-build XML > DOM. As such, we have several bugs relating to cases where that > serialization is not the same as the data received off the wire.
My belief, and please correct me if I'm wrong, is that once the XML has been parsed and built into a DOM, applyXSLTransform() at Document.cpp:3954 is eventually called with the correct XSLT from some xml-stylesheet processing instruction. With the libxslt, the DOM is serialized back into a string so it can be loaded into their internal format as they don't provide a way to give them a pre-existing DOM. I've been trying to trace through all the places where XSLT is used and how this all fits together. Finding an alternative to libxslt is something I think is a worthwhile endeavor due to the inability to integrate tightly with a pre-built DOM instance. -- --Alex Milowski "The excellence of grammar as a guide is proportional to the paucity of the inflexions, i.e. to the degree of analysis effected by the language considered." Bertrand Russell in a footnote of Principles of Mathematics _______________________________________________ webkit-dev mailing list webkit-dev@lists.webkit.org http://lists.webkit.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/webkit-dev
