Subject: Future XSLT extensions. document(). Summary. From: Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 21 Mar 2000 20:30:53 -0800 |
I'm sorry if this letter is disturbing, but I think I should write a summary, because as a private correspondence shows - definately, some points from my previous letters were expressed in fuzzy way. I'm not commenting on ECMA-script and / or JNI / CORBA stuff ( not because it is not reasonable, but because it is another problem domain ). Also not commenting on the possible unified node-set world ( not because it is not reasonable, but because it is another problem domain ). Just expanding the sentence: "The proposal was to bring the node-set typecast into the core and then rethinking the semantics of all the functions returning node-sets and in particular document() function". A. ---- Things added to the core: 1. to-nodeset ( string ) 2. to-string ( node-set ) B. ---- Features under Consideration for Future Versions of XSLT (Non-Normative) * allow for result tree fragments all operations that are allowed for node-sets; becomes true ( including the to-string( r-t-f ) ) C. ----- The semantics of document() is reduced to: node-set document(URI) I wish document (" ") hack goes away, because there will be no actual need in it, I think, most of the things could be done with the variables, because of (B) - but that looks optional to me.... .... Maybe there is realy some person using old assembly language tricks with XSLT .... I agree that (C) may be too strong. I'm sorry, but I see it this way. I would like to get some examples of why document(URI) *only* it is not enough. I think the desired extra functionality could be achived in more natural fashion with the help of A and B or should go to some other function. Rgds.Paul. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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