- From: Jeni Tennison <jeni@jenitennison.com>
- Date: Fri, 18 Jan 2002 20:11:42 +0000
- To: "Kay, Michael" <Michael.Kay@softwareag.com>
- CC: xsl-editors@w3.org
Mike, >> It would make them more reusable, and the transition between sorting >> in XPath and sorting in XSLT more manageable (improving the >> maintainability of the stylesheet). > > I did think about that, but found it hard to justify why someone > would want to use this facility - unless we did in such a way as to > provide dynamic selection of sort keys. If it's simply a question of > having the xsl:sort statements at the top level rather than inline, > my own view is that people probably wouldn't use the facility; > certainly its value would be marginal. Dynamic selection of sort specifications isn't a bad idea. It would probably mean less of a demand for evaluate() within the select attribute of xsl:sort. But I don't think it's that important that I'd keep xsl:sort-key if you dropped sort() (which I hope you do). Cheers, Jeni --- Jeni Tennison http://www.jenitennison.com/
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