RE: jaxp vs xalan

> Another area I've been looking at is the DOM level 3.0 functionality 
> thats getting introduced into Xerces. Specifically in the area of 
> Accessing schema/validation info for a DOM node.
> 
> I'd be curious if the Transformers of the future might make 
> this kind of 
> information available to in the XSLT developers for more powerful 
> rendering. 

Making schema-derived information available to assist XSLT processing is
one of the major themes underlying XSLT 2.0. Unfortunately it's also the
part of the spec that no-one has implemented or played with yet - which
is because it's a fairly significant piece of engineering to get it
working.

Michael Kay


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