Michael Kay wrote:

> (1) is not innovative enough to qualify for a PhD project (but of course,
> it's not for me to judge what the criteria are at your institution)
>
> (2) translating XSLT 2.0 into 1.0 sounds very difficult to do, because of
> the differences in the data model and type system.
>
> (3) would be a very interesting project. XQuery uses the same data model
and
> type system as XSLT 2.0, and has a subset of the functionality, so
compiling
> an XSLT 2.0 stylesheet into an equivalent XQuery sounds both feasible and
> sufficiently challenging.
>
> (4) is probably too big as a typical PhD project, especially as you will
> have to do something innovative along the way, e.g. exploring optimisation
> techniques.

Michael, many thanks for your opinions. I will definitively study all
possibilities in more depth and then decide which way is the most
feasible. I will be definitively publishing running text of my work
on-line, so other interested folks can share experience. I will post
link here after there will be something to publish :-D


					Jirka

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