Re: The top 10 limitations of XSLT 1.0 (was RE: [xsl] RE: Designsfor XSLT functions)

[Francis Norton <francis@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

"Clark C. Evans" wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Andrew Kimball wrote:
> > If the top 10 limitations of XSLT 1.0 were solved, then I think the roar
> > of demand for xsl:script and xsl:evaluate would be reduced to a whimper.
> 
> Hurray!
> 
> > 1. The lack of real string comparison
> > 2. No support for dates
> > 3. No simple mechanism for grouping
> > 4. No querying into RTF's
>   5. More node-set operations: intersect, difference, and equals
>   6. Poor support for modulization (template calling syntax sucks)
>   7. No ability to create functions in XSLT callable from XPath

    8. Support for file-spec skeletons in document() or in a specific
dir() function

Francis.

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