RE: [xsl] versioning

["Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Does XSLT 2.0 supercedes XSLT 1.0, or does it specify a 
> different language? That is, after deployment of XSLT 2.0, 
> would XSLT 1.0 compliant 
> implementations be deprecated? As with SAX 1.0? Or is it a different 
> language, such as C and C++?

I don't think W3C goes in for withdrawing or deprecating old versions of
specifications. It lets the market decide whether they are still of
value.

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  (avoids answering some difficult questions)
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> Yet it turns 
> out that XSLT 2.0 is not upto the task of converting from 
> XSLT 1.0 to XSLT 2.0.
> 
Well, it could be done, but it wouldn't be my preferred language for the
job. As I explained, most of the work means looking fairly deeply inside
XPath expressions, and XSLT is not the language of choice for writing an
XPath parser.

Michael Kay


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