Subject: Re: [xsl] ANNOUNCE: Petition to withdraw xsl:script from XSLT 1.1 From: "Clark C. Evans" <cce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 14:07:34 -0500 (EST) |
On Thu, 1 Mar 2001, Eric van der Vlist wrote: > Your text is so exhaustive that it's difficult to agree with > all the bullet points ;=) Thank you Eric. I think the same comment holds within the group of primary petitioners. Not everyone agrees with every point made. It is the 'sum of the points which is important. > > 1. The XSLT specification clearly states XSLT is not > > intended as a completely general-purpose XML transformation > > language. XSLT is a special purpose language and should be > > maintained as such. Much like structured query language, we > > think the general purpose languages should embed XSLT, not > > the other way round. > > "Embed" reminds me of embedded SQL C, a widely used and, IMO, very > broken combination with many limitations that made it almost impossible > to write object oriented or even structured code and I hope we will > never see embedded XSLT in this way... In '93 I had to personally maintain thousands of lines of SQL Embedded In C. It was a far better solution than most at the time, and this served as a stepping stone for "real" report-writers, etc. Which, as far as my thinking goes, do infact embeed SQL and have not impeeded the the portability of SQL. While, I feel report specific constructs within SQL would have seriously hindered SQL portability. > And in both cases, the combination "code+xslt" is language > dependent making it rather weird to say that one would be > portable when the other is not. IMHO, We were only talking about keeping the XSLT portable... ;) Clark XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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