Re: [xsl] is XSLT 2.0 implementable? (was: N : M transformation)

[Jeni Tennison <jeni@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Sergiu,

> I am a little guy that needs XML Schema validation for inputs to the
> XSL processor.
> In my project I build a component that recives XML from different
> sourses and generates SQL statements to insert or update data in a
> relational database. In this situation I need to check XML for
> conformance with the data model I have designed.
> In another situation, when clients recive XML from the component
> after a query, they can be 100% sure that it's well formed, so they
> don't need any schema validation for further transformations. Any
> validation implies a performance penalty.

I think that the issue is not whether validation (against XML Schema
or any other schema language) is useful, but whether it's useful for
that validation to change/augment the information that you get about
the XML document within the transformation.

Validation of an XML document can be done without using information
from the PSVI in XSLT: just have a pipelined process where you only
perform the transformation if the XML is valid.

The question is whether you need and want the XML document to be
changed/augmented as a result of that validation -- which of the
features from the PSVI do you want to use?

> In my opinion, the schema validation must be a feature that permits
> usage of "Design by Contract" paradigm in the project. It must not
> be a feature that makes XSL a strongly typed language.

Aye, well, there's the rub.

Cheers,

Jeni

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