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Re: XSLT 2.1

Subject: Re: XSLT 2.1
From: "Darcy Parker" <darcyparker@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2008 10:35:50 -0400
Re:  XSLT 2.1
Thanks for pointing out your "true identity template".  I have
definitely experienced the problems you noted with most identity
transforms and have performed workarounds using unparsed-text() but
never built something as complete as your true identity template.
Thanks again for sharing. I am looking forward to studying it further.

Darcy
On Fri, Oct 31, 2008 at 10:02 AM, Jesper Tverskov <jesper@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> In another thread word is out that some work on XSLT 2.1 is going on.
> I don't find anything about it at W3C perhaps I should look better.
>
> How official is it that an XSLT 2.1 is in the making? Is it possible
> to propose new features, etc.?
>
> We know so far that something like <xsl:mode default-action="copy"/>
> is being looked at making things like (I have changed "copy" to
> "identity template" to make things more clear) possible:
>
> <xsl:mode default-action="identity template"/>
> <xsl:template match="foo"/>
>
> I can't resist the temptation to propose something similar making use
> of my "true" identity template for XSLT 2.0,
> http://www.xmlplease.com/identity-template.xsl, explained in this
> tutorial: http://www.xmlplease.com/identity-template.
>
> The "true identity template" (an xslt stylesheet of several templates)
> is 500 lines long! Nice if we could use it like this:
>
> <xsl:mode default-action="true identity template"/>
>
> Nice if we could use a modified "true" identity transformation on let
> us say XHTML documents (important use case) without having to bother
> about how to get original XML declarations and DOCTYPES recreated, how
> to get rid of default attributes having been copied out from the DTDs,
> etc.
>
> Cheers,
> Jesper Tverskov
> http://www.xmlplease.com

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