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> I personally feel that an <xsl:assign> construct would make the language > much more accessible to a very large number of users, both > conventionally-trained programmers and self-taught script writers, and that > this outweighs the rather abstract (dare I say academic?) benefits of being > side-effect-free. I felt honour bound to object to assign on principle, but I agree with Paul that > In other words the goal should not be to make XSL 2 "on the side." It > should be to establish a common namespace for experimentation so that > multiple vendors can implement the same experiment without needing to > use someone else's namespace. In otherwords if a group of vendors are going anyway to experiment with assignmemnt then that is on its own sufficient reason to put assignment into a common namespace, without implying any value judgement on the particular extension in question. David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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