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RE: XSLT2 - which parts solve real 1.0 problems,whichmakes cof

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: RE: XSLT2 - which parts solve real 1.0 problems,whichmakes coffee? - was Re: Streaming XML
• From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@f...>
• Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:32:50 -0700
• Cc: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>,Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>,XML Developers List <xml-dev@l...>
• In-reply-to: <830178CE7378FC40BC6F1DDADCFDD1D103E01359@R...>
• Organization: Fourthought, Inc.
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On Thu, 2004-12-30 at 14:30 -0800, Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Uche Ogbuji [mailto:uche.ogbuji@f...] 
> > Sent: Thursday, December 30, 2004 2:26 PM
> > To: Peter Hunsberger
> > Cc: Michael Champion; XML Developers List
> > Subject: Re:  XSLT2 - which parts solve real 1.0 
> > problems, whichmakes coffee? - was Re:  Streaming XML
> > 
> >
> > > 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.
> 
> EXSLT has grouping primitives? 

Nope.  Missed that one.  I do think it would be nice for someone to
scare up a grouping module for EXSLT.  


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