Does XSLT 2.0 supercedes XSLT 1.0, or does it specify a
different language? That is, after deployment of XSLT 2.0,
would XSLT 1.0 compliant
implementations be deprecated? As with SAX 1.0? Or is it a different
language, such as C and C++?
I don't think W3C goes in for withdrawing or deprecating old versions of
specifications. It lets the market decide whether they are still of
value.
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Yet it turns
out that XSLT 2.0 is not upto the task of converting from
XSLT 1.0 to XSLT 2.0.
Well, it could be done, but it wouldn't be my preferred language for the
job. As I explained, most of the work means looking fairly deeply inside
XPath expressions, and XSLT is not the language of choice for writing an
XPath parser.
Michael Kay
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