>>> James Clark <jjc@xxxxxxxxxx> 07/14 9:05 pm >>>
> Alistair MacDonald wrote:
> > Also, there is no mention of a for loop construct - despite suggestions 
> > that it could be implemented without breaking the side-effect free goal.
> > I presume that this was discussed and eliminated (rather than ignored).

> We took a decision not to introduce any new features in XSLT 1.0 after
> the April draft. We violated this rule in the July draft in a few cases,
> but only so as to fix what we felt were serious problems in the
> language.

Should the topic of looping constructs have been listed in the areas for consideration then ?

Alistair



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