[xsl] Text value templates in XSLT 3?

["Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" <gerrit.imsieke@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Florent,

Thomas Meinike has pointed [1] me to your XMLSS presentation on the 
XPath/XSLT/XQuery 3.0 novelties. Among other things, you presented XSLT 
text value templates [2], a feature that we didnt see in the current 
draft spec [3].

Can you elaborate a bit on the status of this feature?

I think that its misleading because syntactically it looks like XQuery 
where an arbitrary sequence may be created by the expression inside the 
curly braces, while in XSLT the expression should evaluate to a mere 
text node. Does this small gain in syntactic sweetness really outweigh 
the inconsistency with a sister spec?

Gerrit

[1] https://twitter.com/XMLArbyter/status/263220416817025024
[2] http://fgeorges.org/papers/fgeorges-xmlss-xslt-trends.pdf#page=40
[3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/