Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 has arrived

[Abel Braaksma <abel.online@xxxxxxxxx>]

Elliotte Harold wrote:
> My point is that none of those really matter to me all that much.

you are so lucky that you don't need these new features. I know a guy 
who only uses forward-paths with XPath 1 (my/path/here). Once I told him 
he could use predicates, count(), parent:: etc his queries became much 
more complex. He later admitted that he wished to have remained ignorant 
as now his projects' complexity grew over his head (though that may say 
more about the guy than it says of the xpath technology).

> Yes, and both are quite a bit more complex than using xsltproc. :-( 
> Classpath is evil.

Saxon comes as a .NET version too. If you consider java evil, and some 
day you want to try xslt 2 for whatever reason, you can try saxon with 
.NET. But gestalt is there, too, and is getting closer; XML Spy has a 
built in xslt 2 engine, but lacks a lot of compliance; there must be 
others I am unaware of yet.