Subject: RE: [xsl] versioning From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 17 Feb 2004 16:40:45 -0000 |
> Does XSLT 2.0 supercedes XSLT 1.0, or does it specify a > different language? That is, after deployment of XSLT 2.0, > would XSLT 1.0 compliant > implementations be deprecated? As with SAX 1.0? Or is it a different > language, such as C and C++? I don't think W3C goes in for withdrawing or deprecating old versions of specifications. It lets the market decide whether they are still of value. <snip> (avoids answering some difficult questions) </snip> > Yet it turns > out that XSLT 2.0 is not upto the task of converting from > XSLT 1.0 to XSLT 2.0. > Well, it could be done, but it wouldn't be my preferred language for the job. As I explained, most of the work means looking fairly deeply inside XPath expressions, and XSLT is not the language of choice for writing an XPath parser. Michael Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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