> > 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 KayReceived on Tuesday, 1 July 2003 13:50:50 UTC
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