Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 has arrived

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> Personally I plan to stick with 1.0 for the foreseeable future for 
> most of my work unless maybe I need to do something that 2.0 makes a 
> lot easier.

From the moment I found out that matches( . , 'something') and replace( 
. , 'someting', 'something else') (both fully support regular 
expressions) were in XSLT 2, I never looked back. When I learned about 
xsl:function (defining new functions for use in xpaths), unparsed-text() 
and unparsed-text-available() (for non-XML documents) I only looked 
forward. All these tedious hard-to-understand recursive templates for 
simple string replacement all went down the garbage bin.

A warning: don't try it, it is dangerous: you'll get yourself a new 
addiction!