Joe Kesselman writes: >...I do suspect that a subset processor could be made to run smaller >and faster, for those cases where the subset is sufficient. The hard >part is defining what the subset should be -- figuring out exactly >how the niche is defined, then resisting every attempt to add "just one >more harmless little feature".
Isn't that part of the promise of compiling stylesheets via XSLTC, That it would automatically trim away the features you're not using? I read the proposal and was quite surprised to see namespace-alias in the trimmed-down set. I'd think that is only needed in full-featured transformations. A requirements document would seem to be needed to scope this out properly. Perhaps there is some demand for renaming only, or renaming and eliminating certain nodes only. But I have to agree that having humans decide what features should be in is a nearly-ideal recipe for feature creep. .................David Marston
