Re: [xsl] grouping + global variable (?) (was re: regexs,

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Aug 14, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:

> Well up-conversion has been going on along as e-text has. But XML is 
> only now beginning to catch up to where Omnimark and even Perl were 
> years ago.

One of the reasons I decided to try to learn XSLT 2.0 -- beyond the 
citation processing -- was that I needed to work with a bunch of html 
documents (I'm a scholar).  I ran them through Tidy, and then used XSLT 
-- including the new regex support in 2.0 -- to get the data into a 
form where I could easily not only query against the data in eXist, but 
also transform it into bibliographic records.  That alone saved me ages 
of time; 100+ records created in seconds.

If I knew how to program Perl or Ruby, I might use them instead for 
some of this, but the new features in XSLT 2.0 are certainly useful for 
me!

Bruce