Re: [xsl] Transforming XML Blockquotes - Mixed Content - XSLT 1.0 Solution

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Another thing that slipped through the cracks is the path

$mixed/p[not(preceding-sibling::*[1]/name()='p')]

which, even when $mixed is a node-set, will have to be

$mixed/p[not(preceding-sibling::*[1]/self::p)]

in order to run in a 1.0 processor.

Cheers,
Wendell

At 06:09 PM 4/14/2005, David wrote:
> > I guess Saxon 8.4 must do that for me - good to know.
>
> saxon 8 has many virtues, but being a good test bed for a pure xslt1
> solution as opposed to an xslt2 one isn't one of them:-)
>
> Backward compatibility mode in recent drafts of XSLT2 is a lot better
> than it was in earlier drafts but still the intention of that mode
> is to let correct XSLT1 stylesheets work on an XSLT2 processor.
>
> It does not even try to enforce XSLT2 constraints and rules so the fact
> that a stylesheet that says version="1.0" works on an XSLT2 processor is
> no indication at all that it will work on an XSLT1 processor. Apart from
> the fact that result tree fragments no longer exist, you can use the full
> range of XPath2 and XSLT2 syntax and all the XPath2  functions, all that
> happens if you say version="1.0" is that those functions that were
> defined in xslt1 have definitions more closely aligned, but in general
> any new functionality works the same way in backward compatibility mode
> as it does in native xslt2, not as it does in xslt1.


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