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 > > Going off on a tangent here ... that is a subject which intrigues me. > > It is clear that much of XSLT2 really does offer simpler ways of doing > > things that are possible but tedious in XSLT 1. It's hard to know, > > before XSLT 2 gets into people's hands and the wheat and chaff get > > sorted out by experience, which parts reflect the the voice of > > experience, and which parts are "second system syndrome". Anyone want > > to offer opinions? > > The bit we've used so far has been for two reasons: xPath 2 iteration > support ( every $x in...) and regular expression support. Simplified > nodeset handling is good, we sometimes run Saxon in 1.1 mode for that, > but having it blessed is better. I think you've nailed some of the best bits in XSLT2. I'd throw in grouping primitives, multiple output and user defined functions as well. Then I can't help noticing that all of this thumbs-up list except for XPath2 iteration is available in EXSLT. I so wish that XSLT 2 had been nothing but the above plus enough minor tweaks in XPath 1.0 to support iteration. I wish the rest had been left to an XSLT 3.0. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Use CSS to display XML - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/edu/x-dw-x-xmlcss-i.html Full XML Indexes with Gnosis - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/12/08/py-xml.html Be humble, not imperial (in design) - http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=10286 UBL 1.0 - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-think28.html Use Universal Feed Parser to tame RSS - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tipufp.html Default and error handling in XSLT lookup tables - http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-tiplook.html A survey of XML standards - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-stand4/ The State of Python-XML in 2004 - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2004/10/13/py-xml.html 
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