Hi David, Michael
From: David Tolpin [mailto:dvd(_at_)davidashen(_dot_)net]
...
Michael,
... Yet it turns out that
XSLT 2.0 is not upto the task of converting from XSLT 1.0 to XSLT 2.0.
The problem is that XSLT is not a true XML language: the XPath literals
are not broken up into a tree structure. So in order to transform XSLT 1.0
it will be almost essential to delegate the XPath parse to some Java code.
If there was a standard XML tree representation of an XPath, which could
come in useful for all sorts of other purposes, the fn:xpath-to-tree()
function would return it enabling proper XSLT analyses. The reverse
fn:tree-to-xpath() is just a pretty printer.
Given fn:xpath-to-tree(), it would be possible to convert XSLT 1.0 to 2.0,
and perhaps this conversion should accompany the standard.
Regards
Ed Willink
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