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On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 16:17:14 -0500, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...> wrote: > 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? The bit we've used so far has been for two reasons: xPath 2 iteration support ( every $x in...) and regular expression support. Simplified nodeset handling is good, we sometimes run Saxon in 1.1 mode for that, but having it blessed is better. -- Peter Hunsberger
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