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On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 13:41:57 -0600, Dimitre Novatchev
<dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I think that specifying such an extension falls exactly into the subject area of EXSLT, unfortunately until no one has proposed a specification. I agree wholeheartedly that this is exactly the thing that EXSLT should champion. @EXSLT List Members: The body of Dimitre's original message to XSL-List follows. This conversation should probably be moved off of XSL-List, but am leaving XSL-List as a recipient to encourage those who are not already subscribed, but would like to join the conversation, to visit http://lists.fourthought.com/mailman/listinfo/exslt and then do just that. The context is provided first, --- On 6/19/07, M. David Peterson <m.david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: On Tue, 19 Jun 2007 06:25:40 -0600, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: Once we have an implementation of a library of XSLT functions, one would simply use the compiled version of FXSL or whatever else.
Sure. The compiling XSLT processors that I am aware of compile a primary stylesheet with all included and imported stylesheets into a single executable module. This module is then used to perform a definite, specific transformation on any xml source document we want to apply the transformation to. I have been discussing (in this list, I think) the high value of being able to compile stylesheets that are not primary (such as containing only xsl functions). Then there should be a standard mechanism for any primary stylesheet to (link to) use the so compiled library of xsl functions. I think XQuery has such a facility -- the module. Dr. Kay did express his opinion that implementing this for XSLT (just following what we have for XQuery) shouldn't be difficult. Certainly, an extension (element or attribute) will be necessary to declare local externals to export and to needed externals to import from other modules. I think that specifying such an extension falls exactly into the subject area of EXSLT, unfortunately until no one has proposed a specification. -- Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev --- -- /M:D M. David Peterson http://mdavid.name | http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/au/2354 | http://dev.aol.com/blog/3155
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