Re: is XSLT 2.0 implementable? (was: N : M transforma

Wouldn't the easiest way to handle two levels of conformance be to simply
create two different recommendations with two different namespaces? Sort of
an XSLT 2.0 Schema Aware and an XSLT 2.0 Lite, the latter including some of
the newer capabilities people crave such as multiple output processing but
not otherwise really going much further than the current recommendation?

Chuck White
Author, Mastering XSLT, Sybex Books
http://www.javertising.com/webtech
http://www.tumeric.net
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From: "Michael Kay" <michael.h.kay@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:08 AM
Subject: RE:  is XSLT 2.0 implementable? (was: N : M transformation)


> > But they have to pay the price of vastly increased complexity
> > in the specification (and one assumes in the text books that
> > will follow).
>
> If they were paying, either for the specs or for the products, then they
> might have more ability to influence the outcome...
>
> >
> > As the conformance levels are not specified it's hard to
> > comment on them but it would seem likely given the current
> > XSLT draft that given a document and a stylesheet which does
> > not refer to a schema explictly a schema-aware  XSLT engine
> > will produce different results (because it sees vastly
> > different input) than a non-schema aware processor...
>
> Yes, this is likely. We're exploring this area at the moment: for
> example there are suggestions that a stylesheet should be able to say
> whether it requires to use a schema-aware (or non-schema-aware)
> processor, to ensure interoperable results.
>
> Note that we already have this in a very basic form with ID attributes
> in XSLT 1.0; these will be recognized by the id() function or not,
> depending on the XML parser you use.
>
> Michael Kay
> Software AG
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