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Re: CLAX - Client-side functionality

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• Subject: Re: CLAX - Client-side functionality
• From: Elliotte Harold <elharo@m...>
• Date: Mon, 24 Jul 2006 09:04:04 -0400
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Julian Reschke wrote:

> 3. Does the XSLT implementation have a fully working node-set extension 
> (AFAIK right now, only IE does).

I don't find that especially necessary.


> 4. Are there any plans to upgrade the browser engine to XSLT 2.0 (AFAIK, 
>  nobody is planning that, and I'd really like to understand why).

Ditto. Plain-vanilla XSLT 1 seems perfectly adequate for pretty much all 
browser use cases. They're a few things that are easier in XSLT 2, but 
very little important you can't do in XSLT 1.

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