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Hmmm... One more significant feature: a reference to a node can now be expressed/passed/manipulated as an item in an xsl:sequence. So, an xsl:function can produce a reference to a node -- not the copy of the node as was with using templates in XSLT 1.0 "Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@y...> wrote in message cr23oc$n02$1@s...">news:cr23oc$n02$1@s...... > > "Michael Champion" <michaelc.champion@g...> wrote in message > e3a5cb2c041230131755a2c0dc@m...">news:e3a5cb2c041230131755a2c0dc@m...... >> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:06:54 -0500, David Megginson >> <david.megginson@g...> wrote: >>> XSLT 2.0 apparently >>> gives neck massages, makes coffee, and does your taxes as well as >>> transforming XML documents. >> >> Going off on a tangent here ... that is a subject which intrigues me. >> It is clear that much of XSLT2 really does offer simpler ways of doing >> things that are possible but tedious in XSLT 1. It's hard to know, >> before XSLT 2 gets into people's hands and the wheat and chaff get >> sorted out by experience, which parts reflect the the voice of >> experience, and which parts are "second system syndrome". Anyone want >> to offer opinions? > > Definitely the best new features are: > xsl:function > the sequence type (this is actually XPath 2.0, not XSLT) (although > still not able to express sequence items that are sequences themselves) > (although convenient to use only "on the > fly" -- cannot be conveniently persisted as xml) > > Cheers, > Dimitre Novatchev > > > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > >
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