RE: XSLT 1 and 2 differences (d-o-e and namespaces)

> I was going though the new features provided by XSLT 2.0 language. I
> found that disable-output-escaping is now discouraged. I thought d-o-e
> was useful under special circumstances.. Why it will be deprectaed in
> XSLT 2.0? And what will be similar alternative in 2.0.

Please see the answer on another thread.
> 
> Also I found that namespace axis is deprecated in XSLT 2.0 . Why it is
> done so? Is it not an useful axis for XSLT programmers?
> 
The namespace axis offers more functionality than is needed (namespace nodes
have identity, and have parents) and this makes it expensive to implement in
some environments, e.g. when creating a view over a relational database.
There are two new functions in-scope-prefixes() and
namespace-uri-for-prefix() that provide the necessary functionality without
the same overheads.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/