Re: decoupling XSLT streaming recommendations from the main spec

> IMHO the W3C recs are targetted at implementers not users.
>

For years this Spec has been the primary source for everyone, not only to
implementors. There is no user-oriented book or published course that
covers the whole specification.

>   As @ndw says, we are waiting for someone to write the book(s?) for
>   XSLT 3 (and 4?)

I doubt that anyone can physically and mentally do this, due to the mere
overwhelming size (over 1100 pages) of the XSLT 3.0 specification.

And probably only Michael Kay has read every page of this Spec. Even for
him, as for any human being, it might be easy to forget or misinterpret
something written many years ago, such as what calling number("NaN") must
return.

Let us learn from this and produce more fathomable future specifications.

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 7:38 AM Dave Pawson <dave.pawson@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Thu, 22 Sept 2022 at 15:34, Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > I support the idea of modularizing the XSLT Specifications -- **for
> future versions**. The Streaming specification must list explicitly the
> available implementations (seems there is just one?), so that people who do
> not plan to use these implementations can decide to skip reading the
> Streaming specification.
>
> IMHO the W3C recs are targetted at implementers not users.
>
> As @ndw says, we are waiting for someone to write the book(s?) for
> XSLT 3 (and 4?)
>
> @Mukul? are you up to the challenge?
>
>
> regards
>
>
> --
> Dave Pawson
> XSLT XSL-FO FAQ.
> Docbook FAQ.
>
>