[xsl] Wishes for XSL revisions ...

[Gunther Schadow <gunther@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear XSL designers/maintainers, please scrutinize your
specification for orthogonality or lack thereof. I think
you have put in too many special limitations. Here is a
list of some:

- result tree fragment is not a node set, requiring the node
  set function that just about anyone supplies but which
  produces only hassles figuring out what namespace this
  node-set function is in.

- call-template has no mode attribute

- Why should it be forbidden to construct the name of a template
  to call?

- Why should it be forbidden to construct the mode
  argument?

- Why should any qname have to be hard-coded?

This only forces awkward choice forms onto the style sheet
programmer where things could be done soo much simpler!

I will probably have more of those as I go. If you make XSL
a functional language, why don't you go all the way?

regards
-Gunther

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Gunther Schadow, M.D., Ph.D.                    gschadow@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Medical Information Scientist      Regenstrief Institute for Health Care
Adjunct Assistant Professor        Indiana University School of Medicine
tel:1(317)630-7960                         http://aurora.regenstrief.org



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