- From: Kay, Michael <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2003 19:50:39 +0200
- To: Michael Rys <mrys@microsoft.com>, public-qt-comments@w3.org
> > Class: Editorial/Technical > > The collation argument should be a literal. Many current > implementation frameworks cannot easily deal with dynamically > provided collations. We can always remove this restriction in > a later version, but we cannot remove dynamic behaviour > without great difficulties once introduced. > It would be incredibly inconvenient to make users spell out the literal each time it is used, rather than referring to a global variable. In addition, XSLT 1.0 has shown that dynamic sorting capability is high on users' requirements lists, and they are prepared to pay a heavy performance penalty to achieve it. Michael Kay
Received on Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:50:50 UTC