Re: [xsl] Normalize / Simplify HTML-Tables with row-span / col-span

[David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>]

  First point: the only way to extend a language in a backwards compatible
  way is to turn constructs that were errors in 1.0 into features in 2.0.

Not necessarily. The extensions could have been compatible with xslt 1
forwards compatibility (that presumably was the intention at the time)
However as I have already acknowledged in a followup that crossed with
yours, that is probably impossible in general because of the changes in
the data model.


  If you want a processor that imposes the restrictions in the 1.0 spec,
  you've got plenty to choose from and they aren't going to disappear
  overnight.

I would probably figure it out, but don't you think that it is going to
cause confusion if A. Random User googles himself on to
http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200402/msg00447.html
finds some code that advertises itself as xslt 1.0 when it can't run on
any 1.0 system? At the very least, the xslt 2 spec should warn of this
(not that  A. Random User will read the spec:-)

David


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