- From: Michael Kay <mhk@mhk.me.uk>
- Date: Tue, 28 Sep 2004 15:00:10 +0100
- To: <richard.zschech@cqrdata.com>, <public-qt-comments@w3.org>
Our ref: qt-2003Nov0055-01 This issue has a rather unfortunate history. The working group initially rejected the proposal; there was push-back on this decision; we looked at it again and thought we could come up with a design to meet the requirement; the proposer (and others) then pointed out that our design did not meet the stated requirement. There comes a time when a spec has to be frozen, and facilities that cause problems have to be sacrificed in the interests of finishing. We believe there is nothing in the XSLT 2.0 requirements that makes it essential to provide this facility, and that we have already provided a vast amount of new date-and-time handling functionality to meet user needs. Therefore, we've decided to withdraw the facility that we previously proposed (the new properties for system-property()), and to classify this feature request as something to be considered again after XSLT 2.0. Sorry this has been such a painful process: we do bend over backwards to please, and sometimes we stumble in the process. As it happens, this was the second issue to be raised during the last call period for XSLT 2.0, and it is the last one to be closed. We now have no outstanding issues from the last call. Regards, Michael Kay for the XSL Working Group
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