The following features are under consideration for versions of XSLT
after XSLT 1.0:
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a conditional expression;
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support for XML Schema datatypes and archetypes;
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support for something like style rules in the original XSL
submission;
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an attribute to control the default namespace for names
occurring in XSLT attributes;
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support for entity references;
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support for DTDs in the data model;
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support for notations in the data model;
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a way to get back from an element to the elements that
reference it (e.g. by IDREF attributes);
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an easier way to get an ID or key in another document;
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support for regular expressions for matching against any or
all of text nodes, attribute values, attribute names, element type
names;
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case-insensitive comparisons;
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normalization of strings before comparison, for example for
compatibility characters;
-
a function string resolve(node-set) function
that treats the value of the argument as a relative URI and turns it
into an absolute URI using the base URI of the node;
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multiple result documents;
-
defaulting the select attribute on
xsl:value-of to the current node;
-
an attribute on xsl:attribute to control how the
attribute value is normalized;
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additional attributes on xsl:sort to provide
further control over sorting, such as relative order of
scripts;
-
a way to put the text of a resource identified by a URI into
the result tree;
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allow unions in steps (e.g. foo/(bar|baz));
-
allow for result tree fragments all operations that are
allowed for node-sets;
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a way to group together consecutive nodes having duplicate
subelements or attributes;
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features to make handling of the HTML style
attribute more convenient.
