Yes, yes. David is absolutely right: an XSLTC translet encodes only the features actually used in the stylesheet.
Tom David Marston/Cambridge/IBM wrote: > > 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 -- Tom Amiro -- SQA Engineer Sun XML Technology Development voice: 781-442-0589 Fax: 781-442-1437 eMail: tom.amiro@.sun.com
