- From: Mike Schinkel <mikeschinkel@gmail.com>
- Date: Fri, 3 Nov 2006 12:04:27 -0500
- To: <www-tag@w3.org>
>> The only use case that needs this stuff is an XML editor, and that's a very special use case. The only? I'm pretty sure there are more. As an aside, you know it's logically impossible to prove a negative, right? >> Every other example I've seen where people were trying to depend on details like this, they were in fact doing themselves moderate to severe damage in the process. Unfortunately I can't remember my use-case because it's been a few years, but I'm pretty sure it was valid. I'll try to dredge it up from my psyche and reply later. That said, what was far worse about XSLT was: -- No standard node-set function -- Inability to chain transforms recursively w/o intermedite processing because of entity expansion rules. I count XSLT as one of the tech standards where a good idea went bad. JMTCW, anyway. -Mike Schinkel http://www.mikeschinkel.com/blogs/ http://www.welldesignedurls.org/
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