RE: XSLT Processor - root node template & version ques

Thanks to all that replied!

-----Original Message-----
From: Joseph Kesselman [mailto:keshlam@xxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2002 3:49 PM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re:  XSLT Processor - root node template & version
question


>Q1: Does it matter (speed wise or best practice) 
>if a template is defined for the root element? 

If you don't provide one, XSLT's default template should be applied. That 
may or may not do what you want, and may or may not be the fastest 
solution depending on where you want to start _real_ processing.

>Q2: Since the XSLT 1.1 never made it past WD status
> is there any gain in specifying it? I use Xalan-j.

Nope. 1.1 is dead; long live 2.0. 

Some of 1.1's features made it into the XSLT 2.0 working draft. Xalan is 
starting to prototype that version (on a branch, not in the main-line 
development), so if you Really Need those and are willing to use highly 
experimental code you could try that and see whether we've gotten to the 
stuff you want...

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Joe Kesselman  / IBM Research

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