Re: Schemas in XSLT 2.0 (Was: Re: keys and idrefs - XS

Could I include Regular Expressions and Extension Functions in XSLT as
part of the new v.2 wish list? Providing those two would really open for
XSLT's organic expansion.

Francis.

Chris Bayes wrote:
> 
> ERH,
> Damn good idea.
> The changes for 1.1 and xslt that have come up since then will be way
> overdue by the time schema support is shoehorned in. That there is not
> even a murmur of a date fot v2 is a bit worying. We already have a
> fallback mechanism so let's push it another level and have v2 (which
> should really be 1.1+) and v3 (with schema).
> 
> That way we get all the pleasure and no pain.
> 
> Ciao Chris
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of
> > Elliotte Rusty Harold
> > Sent: 13 October 2001 18:10
> > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Cc: xsl-editors@xxxxxx
> > Subject: Re: Schemas in XSLT 2.0 (Was: Re:  keys and
> > idrefs - XSLT2 request?)
> >
> >
> > At 4:12 PM +0100 10/10/01, Jeni Tennison wrote:
> >
> > >So, the first question is whether XSLT 2.0 should mandate support of
> > >XML Schema within XSLT processors (i.e. you've got to be able to
> > >validate against XML Schema in order to be a conformant XSLT 2.0
> > >processor).
> >
> > I propose something even more radical. Drop schemas
> > completely from XPath 2.0/XSLT 2.0. First do everything that
> > can be done without considering schemas; e.g. better
> > grouping, multiple document output, XHTML output method, text
> > inclusions, explicit matching of default namespaces, etc.
> > This could be implemented and finished much more quickly, and
> > would be useful in and of itself.
> >
> > Then, and only then, begin work on XPath 3.0/XSLT 3.0 which
> > would consider only issues relevant to PSVI support. By this
> > time we might actually have some schema aware APIs to build
> > on top of.
> >
> > Furthermore this would also make XSLT 2.0 and 3.0 a lot
> > easier to teach and learn because it would be more obvious
> > what depended on what. You wouldn't, for example, have to
> > learn schemas in order to support multiple output documents.
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