various points so far, rated on scale of 1 to 10, 10 being most important:
>the following feature doesn't connect directly to the XSLT filter, but >it seems to me that one of the most important >things would be "validation" either based on XML Schema or RelaxNG. I >mean in the sense having a document loaded, that >one can only apply "custom styles" as the schema is allowing to. As a general rule I would want validation to be seperable from transformation, which I guess you're suggesting here. I have noted though that sometimes people like to have validation at the point of transformation, I think this is basically a question as to how people like to structure their solutions and both should be supported. value of adding validation: 4 reason: By adding validation you are opening up a large area for development, with possibility of lots of different side effects, could be a big time drain. If validation is required one can still add validation via other ways. That said it is a selling feature. Maybe Star Office should have validation, using Sun's Multi-Schema Validator? >If one has an enterprise with 1000 users for instance >then it's not that nice to have install >the package every time a new version has been released of the package. Agreed, this would be the difference between packages being useful for an expert user/hacker to being useful for administrators. value of making packages load on the fly: 8 >Some debug facility might be a nice thing to have -- at least some sort >of support for xsl:message. I never use xsl:message myself, but I suppose others do. value of xsl:message: 3 _____________________________ When discussing Saxon integration it might be useful to have a method of switching processors, I've noted this before in large applications such as OO as a (minor) selling point. In the context of XSLT 2.0 this might be more pronounced because it looks like support for XML Schema integration with XSLT 2.0 processors will be for processors one has paid for. value of switching processors: 6 (unless I have saxon in which case not so much) hmm, guess I only got up to 8. What was it Dick Clark said. Of course I think parameters are at least an 8. They are pretty much used in any serious XSLT usage. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
