Subject: Re: [xsl] Where is 'intersect' Operator Defined in XPath 3? From: "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2022 00:35:54 -0000 |
> First, it suggests to me that XSLT 3.0 might have some functionality not > present in 1.0. (And I think that suggestion turns out to be true.) Yes, but is the new functionality 10 times the one in XSLT 1.0? Thanks, Dimitre On Tue, Aug 9, 2022 at 5:10 PM C. M. Sperberg-McQueen cmsmcq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > "Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx" < > xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > > > 1. Have you tried to copy + paste the XSLT 3.0 specification into MS > Word and paginate it? If so, how many pages did the result contain? > > > > I did this and got over 1100 pages (1112 pages to be more accurate). > This document contains a total of 253583 words. > > > > Let us suppose that maybe Word's formatting was wrong. An average > printed page is said to contain around 250 words. > > For what it's worth, the per-page word count in the copy of Knuth's > Fundamental Algorithms I just took off my shelf is nearer 550 words per > page. I think 250 might be right for paperback novels. > > > 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? > > First, it suggests to me that XSLT 3.0 might have some functionality not > present in 1.0. (And I think that suggestion turns out to be true.) > > But mostly, it tells me that the editor of XSLT 3.0 was consistently > more careful to be explicit about corner cases than the editor of XSLT > 1.0. > > -- > C. M. Sperberg-McQueen > Black Mesa Technologies LLC > http://blackmesatech.com
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