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> while I appreciate the work that's gone in to it, when looking at > Xpath 1 and Xpath 2, then it is not at all clear to me that no Xpath2 > spec would be that bad an outcome. Some of the worst features have been > improved in more recent drafts (For which I'm prepared to believe you had > some influence:-) but still the price paid for the nice new features > (is, regexp, more general path expressions) is far too high. AOL. Strongly agreed. I have long said that XPath/XSLT 1.0 + EXSLT is a very strong foundation. Strong enough to survive the ISO 5-year lifetime. I see no reason to hustle out 2.0 specs, especially such awful ones. Yes, EXSLT is not W3C-blessed, but it has enough cross-vendor support at this point to be de facto standard enough. I'm still catching up post-hols on the pleasingly vibrant XPath NG mailing list http://lists.fourthought.com/mailman/listinfo/xpath-ng But I expect XPath 1.0 + EXSLT + very carefully constructed modules will be our most important work product. > The XSLT group could have done XSLT2+Xpath1 in 1/100 of the time and > with far greater level of acceptance in the existing XSLT user base. AOL. No doubt. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org http://fourthought.com Tour of 4Suite - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/10/16/py-xml.html Proper XML Output in Python - http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2002/11/13/py-xml.html RSS for Python - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/webservices/library/ws-pyth11.html Debug XSLT on the fly - http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-debugxs.html
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