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> > Going off on a tangent here ... that is a subject which intrigues me.
> > It is clear that much of XSLT2 really does offer simpler ways of doing
> > things that are possible but tedious in XSLT 1. It's hard to know,
> > before XSLT 2 gets into people's hands and the wheat and chaff get
> > sorted out by experience, which parts reflect the the voice of
> > experience, and which parts are "second system syndrome". Anyone want
> > to offer opinions?
>
> The bit we've used so far has been for two reasons: xPath 2 iteration
> support ( every $x in...) and regular expression support. Simplified
> nodeset handling is good, we sometimes run Saxon in 1.1 mode for that,
> but having it blessed is better.
I think you've nailed some of the best bits in XSLT2. I'd throw in
grouping primitives, multiple output and user defined functions as well.
Then I can't help noticing that all of this thumbs-up list except for
XPath2 iteration is available in EXSLT.
I so wish that XSLT 2 had been nothing but the above plus enough minor
tweaks in XPath 1.0 to support iteration. I wish the rest had been left
to an XSLT 3.0.
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