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Paul_Tihansky@xxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: > > I would not propose to add basic arithmetic or evaluation of > conditions to XSL, since it can be done quite elegantly now with > ECMAScript. So I'll join you in pleading for ECMAScript support in the > final Rec. My guess is that inline ECMAScript will: * severely impair optimization opportunities, * severely impair static validity checking, * make visual development tools much harder to create, * make learning XSL more difficult, * discourage proper XSL language development, * reduce the number of actual XSL implementations, * add no functionality not available through structured extension callouts. As James Clark has pointed out on several occasions, if you want to turn every other row in a table blue, this is *trivial* in DOM code. Why mess up the nice declarative properties of the XSL stylesheet when the feature you want is already available and well specified? Is it worth reducing the number of XSL implementations? Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Sports utility vehicles are gated communities on wheels" - Anon XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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