On Wed, 2003-02-05 at 20:25, Hunsberger, Peter wrote: [...] > > Well, as I pointed out XSLT is Turing complete so anything is possible.
Yeah, but I think there's a reason we're not programming in Turing-machine like languages... > For > some people XSLT Extensions may start to make a lot of sense if you're into > math libraries. On the other hand, I should point out there are general > XSLT libraries that implement everything from trig functions (log, sin, et > al) to pattern generation and functional analysis freely available. For > example, join the Mulberry XSLT list and look for stuff from Dimitre > Novatchev and his FXSL library... > > > It would also possible to further extend the GroupingTransformer to do > things like sort the groups > > based on the calculated summaries (e.g. to place highest sums first). And > then there are also plans to > > make a crosstabulating transformer some day... > > Again, I don't really see an issue doing this with XSLT. And I didn't wrote it's not possible, but in my eyes it would be easier, and probably a lot faster when done in Java (though I still need to look in how it could be done using XSLT). Ah well, we can continue this discussion forever :-) -- Bruno Dumon http://outerthought.org/ Outerthought - Open Source, Java & XML Competence Support Center [EMAIL PROTECTED] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
