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Re: Locating Things Relative to Location of Style Sheet

2002-12-06 03:22:41

  David's just worried about the obsolescence of his XPath 1.0 skills.

The annoying thing is that I think some of the stylesheets that I use 
would be drastically simpler using XSLT2, user defined xpath
functions, and regexp support in particular, and personally I'm isolated
from some of the more unpleasant aspects of Xpath2 as it's unlikely
that the unpleasant automatic schema typing will occur, unless XSLT 
is going to incorporate automatically plugging my laptop into the phone
and fetching some schemas from some secret location at ntlworld.com and
applying them to my data without telling me...

But I _do_ worry that XPath2 is vastly complicated because of the schema
stuff for very little benefit and portability across platforms has just
been sacrificed completely. Personally I try to avoid all extensions as
having stylesheets running in saxon, IE6, and Mozilla is important to
me. If the browsers IE6 and Mozilla are not going to use XSLT2 then I
don't think XSLT 1/XPath 1 skills we be obsolescent for some time...

  Life will be terribly boring when you don't have the chance to explain
  to people how to simulate a conditional expression using an
  infinite-length substring... ;-)

I always thought those sort of tricks were Jeni's forte;-)
But I will miss having an excuse to discus set theory every now and
then.

David

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