Subject: RE: [xsl] object-oriented XSL From: "Hunsberger, Peter" <Peter.Hunsberger@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 26 Aug 2002 08:41:12 -0500 |
> > There are times I wish that XSLT did have a better OO model, but that is in > > the way that includes and imports work. XSLT 2 with the ability to have > > multi-modal templates may solve some more of this requirement. However, > > there are still some gaps. I'm still at a loss as to what your hoping to > > achieve beyond what existing languages can do? > > what if defining a new XPath function was as easy as writing a named > template: [snip] > and what if you could define types and associate functions with them, > wouldn't that be pretty cool? Personally, I'd much rather have first order functions in XSLT and the ability to match on schema based types (some of which is coming). I can't see that what you're proposing gains me over those capabilities? > quickly this takes us far from what XSLT is and what it does, ??? From how it works, yes, but not from what it does... > add to this non-XSLT dynamically typed language a bit of function > overloading, (multiple?) inheritance, polymorphism and module building > constructs and i think that you really got something to kick .NET and C# > back down the hole they came from. want to write XML web services? Umm, I think Java already does that... XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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