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   RE: [xml-dev] Ten new XQuery, XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 Working Drafts

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Mike,

I think issue 546, conformance levels, will be a key issue for many current users of XSLT 1.0.
 
The conformance levels for XSLT 2.0 are fully defined in the XSLT 2.0 specification. Issue 546 is essentially an XQuery issue. It's possible that some more technical work may be needed on the XSLT side to define edge cases, for example the situation where a schema-validated document is supplied to a non-schema-aware processor, or the handling of type information derived from DTDs, but I think the conformance modules and levels defined in the XSLT 2.0 draft are essentially agreed and workable.
 
(Under these rules, a Basic XSLT Processor must be able to manipulate atomic values conforming to any of the XML Schema built-in types, for example strings, integers, decimals, doubles, dates, times, QNames. But a Basic XSLT processor does not support type annotations on nodes in the data model: all nodes are untyped. And it does not support user-defined types.)
 
The XSL WG takes the view that the XPath specification does not need to define any conformance rules; all the conformance rules for an XSLT 2.0 processor, including those for XPath-within-XSLT, will be defined in the XSLT specification itself.
 
Issue 546 is there because some members of the XQuery group want to make some prescriptive statements about how input data models might be constructed, e.g. from source XML documents, schemas, and DTDs. The XSL WG has taken the decision that this is outside the boundary of the XSLT specification and not subject to any conformance rules.
 
Michael Kay 




 

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