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Robin Berjon <robin.berjon@e...> writes: > No. XSLT 2.0 brings in useful things that will make it (in > appearance) an easy > sell, such as inclusion of text (for processors that don't > support XInlude) or > regexen. The one XSLT 2 feature that I find myself wanting more than any other is proper node-set handling. I don't think I need explain that... Next up is multi-modal templates. I find that sort of strange, since mostly it's for "trash this node" handling which doesn't have a lot of maintenance overhead even when cut and paste 3 or 4 times. None-the-less the fact that you can't have multiple modes on a single template has irritated me pretty much since the first day I started using XSLT 1.0. Next up would be regex, but it's not something I find myself wanting a lot. Back in the days when I had time to hang out on the xslt list I found myself giving a use case where strong typing would help us. Now-a-days, I've worked around it so much I no longer want it. Essentially, we can annotate a node from the back end with a type attribute and be done with it once and for all; pretty much everything we ever needed to do with types is now possible. My bottom line? Saxon with 1.1 support goes a long way, add in multi-mode support and I really wouldn't have any current reason to switch to 2.0...
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