RE: XSL Standards?

> Mike, were there any real technical issues (eg that didn't apply to
> writing extension functions in JScript or Java) to providing
> a standard
> binding for writing extension functions in XSLT? Or was it something
> else?

I think it was just priorities, coupled with insufficient experience in the
early days of actual user requirements. Extension functions were thought to
be needed primarily for access to external resources, and to algorithms (e.g
regexp) which no one would dream of coding in XSLT. Of course that changed
over time and the requirement to write extension functions in XSLT is now in
the published XSLT 2.0 requirements.

Mike Kay


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