Re: Default actions in XSLT 2.1

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Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

> Going further, I'd propose that the *default value* for the
> "default-action" attribute of the unnamed <xsl:mode> be
>    "xslmode:clone"
> if the "version" attribute of the <xsl:stylesheet>    is    >=   2
> 
> and
>   "xslmode:copy-text"  (the current processing behaviour for version 1.0)
> otherwise.

This is not very good idea. Suppose that you have existing stylesheet in
XSLT 1.0 or 2.0 and you will upgrade it to 2.1 in order to use some new
useful XPath function. With your proposal which breaks backwards
compatability you will have to update existing code to accommodate to
new set of built-in template rules.

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