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--- Tobias Reif <tobiasreif <at> pinkjuice.com> wrote: > Date: Wed, 12 Feb 2003 11:41:11 +0100 > Newsgroups: gmane.text.xml.xsl.general.mulberrytech > Reply-to: xsl-list <at> lists.mulberrytech.com > > Braumüller, Hans wrote: > > > I have had also problem with the xsl-debugger from xml spy 5. I > > wanted to know, if their inbuild-engine is 100% compliant with > > XSLT, to find out if my code or the the debugger fails, because of > > get the same code running with msxml 3 and 4 and xalan 2.4.1. I > > search the entire Altova website, the Help and handbook from Xml > > Spy 5. Nothing. > > > > I hope they will release that important information, if they want > > stay serious with us. > > http://www.xmlspy.com/support_faq_ide_xsl.html#q10_xsl > etc don't tell much ... Not only they don't tell much, but even what they tell sounds very strange and, I believe, is misleading: "Question: Does the xmlspy® 5 internal XSLT engine support XSLT extensions? Answer: The xmlspy® 5 internal XSLT engine does not support proprietary extensions e.g. MSXML or Apache. We will be supporting the XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 standards in future implementations of our engine and this will practically eliminate the need for any proprietary extensions." So, according to the XML Spy documentation, support for XSLT/XPath 2.0 "will practically eliminate the need for any proprietary extensions". Compare this to the XSLT 2.0 WD: http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt20/#extensibility "2.7 Extensibility XSLT provides two hooks for extending the language, one hook for extending the set of instruction elements used in content constructors and one hook for extending the set of functions used in XPath expressions. These hooks are both based on XML namespaces: see 18 Extensibility and Fallback for further details. Extension instructions and extension functions defined according to these rules may be provided by the implementor of the XSLT processor, and the implementor may also provide facilities to allow users to create further extension instructions and extension functions. This specification defines how extension instructions and extension functions are invoked, but the facilities for creating new extension instructions and extension functions are implementation-defined." Probably they didn't read the XSLT 2.0 draft at all? ===== Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Send Flowers for Valentine's Day http://shopping.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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