xml-dev - RE: Deprecating XSLT templates

[Tim McCune <timm@channelpoint.com>]

Title: RE: Deprecating XSLT templates

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Commenting it out or making it stop working is not the same as
deprecating it.  By deprecating (here we go again), I mean that you
want code (other templates in other stylesheets) that depends on it
to not break, but you want those users to know that they should stop
using it.

- -----Original Message-----
From: Mike Brown [mailto:mbrown@corp.webb.net]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:44 PM
To: 'John Prout'
Cc: 'xml-dev@lists.xml.org'
Subject: RE: Deprecating XSLT templates

If you don't want it to be used ever, you could comment it out. You
could assign it a lower priority (using the priority attribute on
xsl:template) than a competing template that would otherwise match
the same nodes at the same priority. You could pass in an external
parameter to the stylesheet and have the template do nothing, or
something else, if that parameter is set to a particular value.
 
xsl-list would probably be a better forum for this discussion.
 
- -----Original Message-----
From: John Prout [mailto:jprout@onepage.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 3:34 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: Deprecating XSLT templates

Is the question how can we deprecate an individual template in an
XSLT document - i.e. mark that a template should no-longer be used, -
that it's been replaced by something else... I can see some use for
this in the evolution of a transform

- -----Original Message-----
From: Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com
[mailto:Jonathan.Robie@SoftwareAG-USA.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 2:02 PM
To: timm@channelpoint.com; xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: RE: Deprecating XSLT templates

Now I'm *really* confused.

Deprecating templates in XSLT would be more like deprecating
functions in Java altogether - templates are very much at the core of
the language. Why would you want to do that? What would you replace
it with? Would it still be XSLT in any meaningful way if you did
this?

Jonathan

- -----Original Message-----
From: Tim McCune
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Sent: 10/5/00 2:49 PM
Subject: RE: Deprecating XSLT templates

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The same way you would deprecate a method in Java.  Sorry, I didn't
consider the non-programmers here.

- - -----Original Message-----
From: Peter S. Housel [ mailto:housel@home.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 12:12 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: Re: Deprecating XSLT templates

Tim McCune <timm@channelpoint.com> wrote:
> The subject line sort of says it all.  Has anyone given any thought
>  to this?  The only thing we've come up with so far is sticking
> some  <xsl:message>s in them.

I can't make heads or tails out of the subject line.  Do you want to
"express disapproval of", "play down", or "disparage" XSLT templates?
 Are
you trying to compute your income taxes, and need to "lower their
price or
estimated value"?

Cheers,
- - -Peter S. Housel-   housel@acm.org 
http://members.home.com/housel/

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