Re: XSLT 1.1 comments

Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> format-number() is another case in point of this.  It
> causes *real* pain when an implementor has to find away to implement such
an
> awkward mechanism when his language has perfectly useful, and far more
mature,
> numerical formatting constructs.

Yes, I very much agree, format-number, in retrospect, was a mistake.

> It *appears*, and I might be wrong, that this XSLT 1.1 draft
> was produced without thinking of the general ramifications of the changes

> outside of the Java interest.

Please note that Microsoft is very much a part of the XSL WG.

-scott


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