RE: reference sheet for XSLT 2.0?

On Mon, 11 Aug 2003, Michael Kay wrote:

> >   i checked http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath-functions/ and, in the 
> > list of functions on strings, i saw a number of string 
> > functions but not one to simply reverse a string, which i 
> > would have thought 
> > would be fairly obvious.
> > 
> How often does one need to reverse a string?
> 
> It's easily done in XPath 2.0 as
> 
>    string-join(
>       for $i in string-length($in) to 1 return substring($in, $i, 1),
>       "")
> 
> or using a recursive function if you find that more elegant.

this is a good point, i was just using that as an example.  more
to the point, i guess i was curious about how much of the fairly
new "XSLT cookbook" from o'reilly would be unnecessary given the
new facilities in XSLT 2.0.  thanks for the pointers.

rday


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