On Thu, 2012-07-26 at 15:10 +0200, Stefan Behnel wrote: > Maybe you can still fix it with XSLT 3. Define an official namespace for > the extensions over XSLT 1.0 and thus make it easier to implement a > well-defined subset of new additions to the standards in an arbitrary XSLT > x.y processor, but without requiring XML Schema.
XSLT 2 does not require XML Schema and neither does XSLT 3. Schema validation is an optional feature. Being able to say that a variable holds an integer avoids the need to convert it to and from strings all the time, and also does not require XML Schema support. Liam -- Liam Quin - XML Activity Lead, W3C, http://www.w3.org/People/Quin/ Pictures from old books: http://fromoldbooks.org/ Ankh: irc.sorcery.net irc.gnome.org freenode/#xml _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ xslt@gnome.org https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt