RE: [xsl] EXSLT and XSLT 2.0

Subject: RE: [xsl] EXSLT and XSLT 2.0
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 Oct 2008 23:16:41 +0100
> Is it fair to say that except maybe for some of the math 
> functions, all extension functions and elements in EXSLT are 
> completely irrelevant if you are using XSLT 2.0? EXSLT is 
> mostly of the past?
> 
> Have I overlooked something useful?

I think the string handling is all redundant. Most of the date and time
handling is redundant, except for date:parse-date() but I don't think that's
widely implemented. Random number generation and thr trigonometric functions
are still very useful. And as David says, there's still no dyn:evaluate().

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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