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Hmmm... One more significant feature:
a reference to a node can now be expressed/passed/manipulated as an item
in an xsl:sequence.
So, an xsl:function can produce a reference to a node -- not the copy of the
node as was with using templates in XSLT 1.0
"Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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> "Michael Champion" <michaelc.champion@gmail.com> wrote in message
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>> On Thu, 30 Dec 2004 15:06:54 -0500, David Megginson
>> <david.megginson@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> XSLT 2.0 apparently
>>> gives neck massages, makes coffee, and does your taxes as well as
>>> transforming XML documents.
>>
>> 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?
>
> Definitely the best new features are:
> xsl:function
> the sequence type (this is actually XPath 2.0, not XSLT) (although
> still not able to express sequence items that are sequences themselves)
> (although convenient to use only "on the
> fly" -- cannot be conveniently persisted as xml)
>
> Cheers,
> Dimitre Novatchev
>
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