Re: decoupling XSLT streaming recommendations from the main spec

>  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.

Sorry, the exact citation is: "what calling xs:double("NaN") must return

See this here:

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-xslt-40/2022Sep/0047.html

And once again, it is human to err, and this capability would probably be
magnified when dealing with a 1100 pages document.

Will someone write a book (or a number of books) covering the complete XSLT
3.0?

Until proven wrong, this seems highly unlikely.

Thanks,
Dimitre

On Thu, Sep 22, 2022 at 7:54 AM Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@gmail.com>
wrote:

> > 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.
>>
>>
>
>