- From: <David.Pawson@rnib.org.uk>
- Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 08:35:35 +0100
- To: Michael.Kay@softwareag.com, public-qt-comments@w3.org
One more break with xslt 1.0 Michael?
More stylesheet changes if someone wants to move to 2.0?
> You can always pass a stylesheet parameter that gives the URI of the
> stylesheet, and use this parameter to retrieve the source code.
Yes, as was the case in 1.0.
People didn't use it.
>
> However, the need for this coding technique will greatly
> decline in XSLT
> 2.0. It was used in XSLT 1.0 almost exclusively to handle
> fixed look-up
> tables, which can be handled in XSLT 2.0 much more efficiently using
> temporary trees held in global variables.
The classic of
<months>
<January>
...
as a look up.
I can't see how a temporary tree will help there?
I dislike this change.
E.g. when moving from a workstation development to a server,
the file location will need changing?
Yes, it can be worked round. The elegance of document('') is now
well known and of great utility.
Seems a bad decision to change it.
regards DaveP
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