Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: Language-specific output From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 4 Feb 2006 13:41:58 +1100 |
On 2/4/06, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > > I am really liking the validation-in-the-background feature of the > > new oXygen. In particular, I'm liking the way syntactically malformed > > XPath expressions (or pseudo-XPath since they're malformed) just > > "light up" on their own, rather than just lurking till runtime before > > I discover I have one too few closing parentheses. > > Perhaps a clearer distinction is needed between what compiler folks call > syntactic and semantic errors: in particular, referring to > functions/variables/templates/types that don't exist (yet) is classified as > a semantic error. Since in XSLT all of these can be forwards references > anyway, it's not just references to things declared in other modules that > are relevant, but forwards references to things in the same module. As for other missing things in the language: <pragma:external name="varName" as="type"/> or <xsl:variable ... pragma:external="yes"/> Where pragma may be associated to: "http://saxon.sf.net/" or "http://exslt.org/modular-stylesheets" -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --------------------------------------- To avoid situations in which you might make mistakes may be the biggest mistake of all.
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