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Your text is so exhaustive that it's difficult to agree with all the bullet points ;=) ... Without wanting to kick off the debate again, I don't like the wording of your first one: No xsl:script Petitioners wrote: > 1. The XSLT specification clearly states XSLT is not > intended as a completely general-purpose XML transformation > language. XSLT is a special purpose language and should be > maintained as such. Much like structured query language, we > think the general purpose languages should embed XSLT, not > the other way round. "Embed" reminds me of embedded SQL C, a widely used and, IMO, very broken combination with many limitations that made it almost impossible to write object oriented or even structured code and I hope we will never see embedded XSLT in this way... This is actually why I don't like the xsl:script stuff, because it's embedded Java or javascript... On the other hand, if by "embed", you mean "call" like calling a transformation from a piece of code or calling a piece of code from a XSLT sheet using an extension mechanism, I don't see why one would be better than the other. It's a design choice and both have their advantages and I see both as clean solutions... And in both cases, the combination "code+xslt" is language dependent making it rather weird to say that one would be portable when the other is not. Eric PS: I agree with your conclusion, though. -- See you in Austin (Knowledge Technologies 2001) http://www.gca.org/attend/2001_conferences/kt_2001/mon.htm ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Eric van der Vlist Dyomedea http://dyomedea.com http://xmlfr.org http://4xt.org http://ducotede.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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