> First, it suggests to me that XSLT 3.0 might have some functionality not
> present in 1.0.  (And I think that suggestion turns out to be true.)

Yes, but is the new functionality 10 times the one in XSLT 1.0?

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 5:10 PM C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
cmsmcq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <
> xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
>
> > 1. Have you tried to copy + paste the XSLT 3.0 specification into MS
> Word and paginate it? If so, how many pages did the result contain?
> >
> >     I did this and got over 1100 pages (1112 pages to be more accurate).
> This document contains a total of 253583 words.
> >
> >     Let us suppose that maybe Word's formatting was wrong. An average
> printed page is said to contain around 250 words.
>
> For what it's worth, the per-page word count in the copy of Knuth's
> Fundamental Algorithms I just took off my shelf is nearer 550 words per
> page.  I think 250 might be right for paperback novels.
>
> >     Using this criteria we get  253583  / 250 = 1014.332 pages.
> >
> > 2. Do the same as 1. above but with the XSLT 1.0 specification. How many
> pages do we get? Just 107 pages.
>
> > Does this fact tell us something and what?
>
> First, it suggests to me that XSLT 3.0 might have some functionality not
> present in 1.0.  (And I think that suggestion turns out to be true.)
>
> But mostly, it tells me that the editor of XSLT 3.0 was consistently
> more careful to be explicit about corner cases than the editor of XSLT
> 1.0.
>
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