Subject: Re: [xsl] Where is 'intersect' Operator Defined in XPath 3? From: "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 9 Aug 2022 22:33:39 -0000 |
On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 3:11 PM Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx < xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 2022-08-09 at 20:35 +0000, Dimitre Novatchev > dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > > > > Using this criteria we get 253583 / 250 = 1014.332 pages. > > > > 2. Do the same as 1. above but with the XSLT 1.0 specification. How > > many > > pages do we get? Just 107 pages. > > > > Does this fact tell us something and what? > > That the Funtions and Operators specification is larger than the XSLT 1 > specification was, although it would make more sense to compare with > XPath 1. > Actually, I am sizing and comparing the specifications of XSLT 3.0 and XSLT 1.0. Not the F&O spec. > > This is for three main reasons. > > First, the language has been made much more precise. > If only the flow of words make the contents precise, then let's have 10K pages not just 1K pages. > > Second, the XPath language has grown considerably > As corrected above, this is about the XSLT 3.0 Spec. > > Third, there's a much higher proportion of helpful explanatory text, > including section introductions, an explanation of regular expression > syntax, a great many examples, and more. > > This is not a bad thing. > Completely agreed about the XPath Spec. As for the XSLT 3.0 spec, I personally don't believe that the functionality grew proportionally to the documentation size (10 times) ... On the contrary, the usability of the document is probably **inversely** proportional to its size, starting from some specific value, which I suspect might be around 300 - 400 pages. If our goal were to repel potential users, disenchant them, then let us further increase the documentation size, this time probably to 3000 - 5000 pages. If there is a single person that has read all 1100 pages of the XSLT 3.0 Spec, please, do let us know. If this number is more than 5 - 6, then that would be really amazing. Thanks, Dimitre > liam > > -- > Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ > Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ > XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. > Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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