Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 has arrived

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

David Carlisle wrote:

> you mean like transforming xml:-) I was (and still am, really) highly
> critical of the level to which schema-nonsense affected xquery/xslt2
> but actually xslt2 has turned out rather well. The schema features don't
> intrude too much if you are using a basic processor, and the extra
> functionality (temporary trees, grouping and regexp in particular) mean
> that for anything other than client side xslt (which I still think has a
> place) I'd use xslt2 every time. Try it, you may find yourself being
> hooked... 

I have tried it, and the only thing that jumps out at me is the ability 
to use regular expressions to break apart badly marked up data. 
Otherwise, most of what I do can be well handled by XSLT 1.

I also find user interface concerns of processors to be an important 
characteristic. Browsers work (finally) and so does xsltproc. Both only 
support XSLT 1. Saxon I can only make work with a bunch of annoying Java 
classpath voodoo. That's enough extra pain for using XSLT 2 for simple 
jobs, that I'm far less inclined to do so.

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