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Hi,
I have to admit that however harsh it may seem to some, Dimitri's logic seems very sound. Regards, ac . . . . . . . . . . .It's an XSLT compiler, by which I mean a pure XSLT 1.0 stylesheet (using no extensions) that can take a stylesheet using certain XSLT 2.0 features (and some other extensions) and "compile" it into a pure XSLT 1.0 stylesheet. Both the compiler and its output should be able to run in any XSLT 1.0 compliant engine.So, the question is, would anyone here be interested in a tool like this?Not really. The most valuable features of XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0 are extremely difficult to implement in XPath 1.0/XSLT and without these features it is meaningless to use a much weaker language. Why should I be interested in a language lacking such features, just to name a few, as sequences, rich types and type checking, the enormous standard function library, the convenient support for regular expressions, the much higher composability of XPath expressions, ...
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