On Thu, Dec 08, 2005 at 04:08:03AM -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote: > On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:54:09PM -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote: > > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > > > > > >but it's not anything there is > > > >normative prose about nor regression tests to check behaviour. > > > > > > That's too bad because it seems to work so well if the required > > > declaration order is known. > > > > > > Although I'd rather stick with pure XSLT 1.0, I'm thinking about solving > > > my problem by calling EXSLT user-defined functions in the match pattern > > > of > > > an xsl:key. However, after reading this discussion > > > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122483 > > > > > > I'm feeling slightly uneasy. Assuming there are no variable references > > > anywhere in the dependency chain of the match pattern, this remains > > > accepted/supported usage, right? > > > > I said I didn't intend to change things. This is an Open Source project > > not some black box coming without sources ! > > I'm sorry I sounded offensive. It seems my wording was horribly ambiguous, > and you saw the opposite of the meaning I hoped to convey.... > > By "too bad", I meant it's too bad the W3C didn't specify this so that I > could use this feature and still write portable XSLT 1.0. As much as I > like your implementation, I still want portability. > > I figure EXSLT may offer a lesser degree of portability, but it would be > better than using an implementation-specific feature. I'm *not* "feeling > slightly uneasy" about libxslt. I'm feeling uneasy about whether this > EXSLT usage is portable. I was hoping you could shed some light since > you're such a great advocate for the specs.
oh, okay, sorry for the misunderstanding :-) Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat http://redhat.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/ _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
