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Re: Re: [xquery-talk] [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLTpro

• From: Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>
• To: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• Date: Thu, 13 Oct 2011 11:18:28 +0100

> I think if you polled XSLT 2.0 users and asked them which features they find
> most valuable, grouping and regular expressions would come top of the list,
> followed by multiple output documents, date and time handling, user-written
> functions, ability to handle non-XML input, and atomic sequences (not per
> se, but the ability to do things like summing over computed values, which
> come as a consequence of atomic sequences).

Very near the top of my list would be the 'fail early' policy instead
of the 'never fail' policy of xslt 1.0, where the first-item-semantics
often meant you weren't aware of a problem until long after the
transform.




-- 
Andrew Welch
http://andrewjwelch.com

• References:
  • [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor (C++,open source,Apache license)
    • From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@mac.com>
  • RE: [xquery-talk] [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor(C++, open source, Apache license)
    • From: Geert Josten <geert.josten@daidalos.nl>
  • Re: [xquery-talk] [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor(C++, open source, Apache license)
    • From: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@mac.com>
  • Re: Re: [xquery-talk] [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLT processor (C++, open source, Apache license)
    • From: Chris Burdess <dog@bluezoo.org>
  • Re: Re: [xquery-talk] [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLTprocessor (C++, open source, Apache license)
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>