On Sun, 11 Dec 2005, Vincent Lefevre wrote: > On 2005-12-11 05:29:25 -0500, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > I'm gonna be frank. XSLT-1.0 does not fit your need. You want to sort > > node set and do maths with it ? Use XPath from a high level *programming > > language* instead of trying to divert somthing XSLT was not designed for ! > > Well, in a theoretical point of view, XSLT is a programming language. > It is just not designed to be efficient.
I did read, however, that efficiency is one of the goals of 2.0. Personally, I have no idea if they succeeded. > However it has the nice > property of not allowing side effects, as in real functional languages, > and it also has a nice syntax (IMHO) to mix with generated XML. That's basically why I selected it for my current project. My original implementation was in C++, and that was tough to maintain. > But couldn't extensions like exslt (which libxslt can be linked with) > be an alternative solution? I explored that option. I couldn't find any extension that gave me the efficiency boost of referencing a key from a key. Do you have any ideas? Thanks. Joel _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
