- From: Niko Matsakis <niko@datapower.com>
- Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 09:41:09 -0400
- To: "Michael Kay" <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Cc: <public-qt-comments@w3.org>, "'Mary Holstege'" <mary.holstege@marklogic.com>
> I would add one remark that's specific to XSLT, which is that we are > indeed > adding a construct to the language to allow users to specify that a > stylesheet should treat the source document as untyped, effectively > discarding any type annotations that are present. I am glad to hear that; in general, while it is good that the option to ignore schema information is available to implementors, I think it is far superior to include a standard way to specify most things users will commonly want to do. Otherwise, each implementor is forced to add their own specific knob and cross-compatibility becomes a huge pain. The node-set function in XSLT 1.0 is a good example: each product had their own node-set function, and as a result you see stylesheets with many different versions, each specific to a particular vendor. Anyway, I appreciate the replies. Niko
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