Re: [xsl] XSLT 2.0 has arrived

[Elliotte Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Mukul Gandhi wrote:

> XSLT 2.0 has lot of other features apart from regular expressions. For
> e.g. for-each-group (a newcomer now doesn't need to learn a
> complicated Muenchian grouping algorithm. it's also very scalable),
> rich data typing (tightly integrated with XML Schema, which has many
> benifits), a very huge function library, and quite a few more
> benifits.

My point is that none of those really matter to me all that much.

> Using Saxon just requires setting saxon8.jar in the classpath. Xalan-J
> requires setting xalan.jar. So complexity of using Saxon is same as
> Xalan.

Yes, and both are quite a bit more complex than using xsltproc. :-( 
Classpath is evil.

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