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> What I wonder about for XSLT 2.0 / XPath
2.0 is to take the current specs back to the drawing board, in a sense similar
to
> what XSLT 1.0 did
relative to DSSSL, and produce a non-typed XML Query/Transformation
language.
Try telling someone who has rowed the Atlantic and is
within sight of land, that you think they could finish faster if they started
again and headed for a different destination. You would get roughly the same
reaction.
> What are the strongest arguments in
favour of strong typing in XSLT 2.0? Who is pushing those
arguments?
The
arguments have been frequently rehearsed. For people who are using XML Schema,
it seems very natural indeed that the stylesheet should take advantage
of the type information that is thereby available. For example, if you
have 23 elements with the same type, being able to match on the type is a real
convenience. And there are many people who ARE using XML
Schema.
Don't ever imagine that everyone on the XQuery group
wants strong typing and everyone on the XSL group doesn't. That's a complete
fallacy. Both groups feel that they are now close to achieving the goals that
they set out to achieve.
Michael Kay
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