Re: XSLT/XPath 2.0 (was "Identifying two tags...")

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Subject: Re: XSLT/XPath 2.0 (was "Identifying two tags...")
From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 08:45:10 -0400

At 1:09 PM -0700 5/13/02, Evan Lenz wrote:

I'd also add to Jeni's note that if you (or anyone else) are in favor of a conformance level for XSLT 2.0 that does not require XML Schema validation, we would like to hear about it, including any specific requirements for what such a conformance level would entail. You may have a better chance of success if you put your hopes in a conformance level, rather than trying to fight the inclusion of XML Schemas altogether.

At an absolute minimum I want to be able to teach XSLT 2.0 to an audience that knows nothing about schemas without teaching schemas first. Specifically:

I don't want any of the core functionality to depend on schema types. For instance, I do not want a function like starts-with(), round() or getYear() to fail simply because there is no schema available. I do not want equality comparisons between 2 and 2 to return false because the first 2 is an integer and the second 2 is a string.

I do not want XSLT processing to fail because the instance document has an xsi:schemaLocation attribute that points to a nonexistent schema.

I don't want there to be any required attributes to turn schema processing off.

Any feature which can be implemented without PSVI information (e.g. getting the year from 1999-12-21) should be implemented without PSVI information.

I do not want any features to work differently because of schemas. I do not want to have to tell my students, "This will make sense after we learn about schemas." --

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