This announcement seems to have done
something remarkable: at least
for a moment in one forum it seems to have
erased all concerns
about XSLT 2.0 and rallied EVERYONE to
it's defense.
well actually I posted it originally and in
my original post I noted my concerns about
xslt 2.0, and my perhaps paranoid
assumptions that the complexity, tie-ins to
xml schema came from the Microsoft end. Also
David Carlisle noted some of his concerns
but also noted that they had died down since
working with the language as being at least
partially ignorable - there were some
remarks about the typing being annoying but
otherwise he seemed reconciled.
I suppose I'm also reconciled to everything
but the damn explicit typing.
Personally today I was wondering what this
should have as an effect on xpath-ng which
has become moribund but which I think might
have a place again given this rather sizable
slice of the market not moving to xpath 2.0