RE: [xsl] XSLT 1.1 comments

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David Carlisle 

> ah, so that's the criterion, only extensions that you've used 
> should be
> let in:-)

I can only put forward my own views David.



> 
> >  Its the idea of any non xsl vocab inside my stylesheet that I
> > object to.
> 
> I don't really think there is much special about the distinction of
> being in the same file. If it's some script inside an msxml:script
> element or an extension function accessed via a java: URI pointing at
> some class that is hopefully on my java classpath, the effect is the
> same: it will either work or it won't depending on circumstances.
> So I don't see stylesheets using msxml:script as any less 
> portable than
> an xsl 1.0 stylesheet using the XSL engine's current java binding to
> an extension function.

Agreed. I said I make use of saxon:line-number() at my own risk.
Just as we both do for yyy:node-set()

Some risks we accept.

Regards DaveP 

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