Subject: Re: [xsl] Locating Things Relative to Location of Style Sheet From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 6 Dec 2002 10:22:41 GMT |
David's just worried about the obsolescence of his XPath 1.0 skills. The annoying thing is that I think some of the stylesheets that I use would be drastically simpler using XSLT2, user defined xpath functions, and regexp support in particular, and personally I'm isolated from some of the more unpleasant aspects of Xpath2 as it's unlikely that the unpleasant automatic schema typing will occur, unless XSLT is going to incorporate automatically plugging my laptop into the phone and fetching some schemas from some secret location at ntlworld.com and applying them to my data without telling me... But I _do_ worry that XPath2 is vastly complicated because of the schema stuff for very little benefit and portability across platforms has just been sacrificed completely. Personally I try to avoid all extensions as having stylesheets running in saxon, IE6, and Mozilla is important to me. If the browsers IE6 and Mozilla are not going to use XSLT2 then I don't think XSLT 1/XPath 1 skills we be obsolescent for some time... Life will be terribly boring when you don't have the chance to explain to people how to simulate a conditional expression using an infinite-length substring... ;-) I always thought those sort of tricks were Jeni's forte;-) But I will miss having an excuse to discus set theory every now and then. David _____________________________________________________________________ This message has been checked for all known viruses by Star Internet delivered through the MessageLabs Virus Scanning Service. For further information visit http://www.star.net.uk/stats.asp or alternatively call Star Internet for details on the Virus Scanning Service. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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