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Re: XSLT 2.0 or XSLT 1.0 -- which is more elegant?

2005-04-19 03:48:41
Hi Dimitre,

On mar, 2005-04-19 at 20:23 +1000, Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

With XSLT 2.0 I can have expressions like:

    f:pow(sum(f:map(f:flip(f:pow(),10), 1 to 10)), 0.1)

or

    f:transform-and-sum(f:flip(f:substring-before(), '*'), 
                                       data(/*/*/@colwidth))


or

    f:map(f:round-half-to-even(f:sqrt(2, 0.000001)), 0 to 13)


These are really elegant compared to the xslt 1.0 code necessary to
produce the same result.

Another reason I find XSLT 2.0 more elegant than XSLT 1.0 is that
there isn't anymore any need to use an xx:node-set() extension
function.

What is really not elegant at all in XSLT 2.0 is the impossibility to
define user data types inline in a stylesheet  -- forcing the
programmer to artificially separate in different files type definition
from type usage makes XSLT 2.0 rather unique... :(

Of course, one would also like to see nested sequences, type classes
and type equations...

I won't argue that XSLT 2.0 doesn't bring useful features and I must
admit I am using it punctually, but I consider that the flaws of the
PSVI based architecture promoted by XSLT 2.0 generally outweigh the
benefit of these features and that's what prevent me from using it on a
large scale.

Of course, that's a decision which is very subjective and even personal
since it's a trade-off between architectural principles and concrete
features :-) ...

Eric
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