Re: What will be the future improvements of XSLT?

If reuse of result trees was possible, 90% off my problems and ugly
hacks would disappear. I would really appreciate to know the rationale
why the spec says what is says (implementation problems?)

DPawson@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 
> : David Carlisle wrote:
> 
> >> 2, Sorting of elements according
> >This is one area where I think XSL is weak, not because of the
> >declarative nature, but because you can't reuse the result tree,
> >it is hard to do sorting and processing at the same time.
> >(see the recent question about sorting data and grouping into table
> >rows)
> 
> Isn't this a repeating problem that needs to be addressed
> by the editors?
> 
> If they have valid reasons for not permitting re-use of the
> result tree, then how about some other (ephemeral?)
> intermediate form that could be used to achieve the
> end result?
> 
> It would appear that there is a valid customer driven
> need, come on editors, how about it?
> 

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