Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT 1.1 comments From: Jeni Tennison <mail@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 15 Feb 2001 09:41:25 +0000 |
Clark C. Evans wrote: > Many people want scripts beacuse the "modulization" abilities > of XSLT leave alot to be desired, i.e., making a template and > calling a template are just too verbose. That's not the primary reason I could imagine wanting user-defined functions. I can imagine two situations that this would not help: 1. for getting information about the system in ways impossible in XSLT, like getting the current date, testing whether a file or directory exists, or pulling information out of a database from within a stylesheet 2. for accessing templates within XPath predicates - for example if I write a funky regexp match template then I'd like to be able to use it to select all nodes whose value matches a particular regexp There are ways around both these current limitations - you can pass the current date and so on in as a parameter, and you can (in XSLT 1.1) construct an RTF holding copies of or references to the relevant nodes to get the second functionality - but they're very unweildy. Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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