Re: [xml-dev] Re: [xquery-talk] [ANN] Zorba 2.0: complete XQuery/XSLTpro

[Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@gmail.com>]

> I think if you polled XSLT 2.0 users and asked them which features they find
> most valuable, grouping and regular expressions would come top of the list,
> followed by multiple output documents, date and time handling, user-written
> functions, ability to handle non-XML input, and atomic sequences (not per
> se, but the ability to do things like summing over computed values, which
> come as a consequence of atomic sequences).

Very near the top of my list would be the 'fail early' policy instead
of the 'never fail' policy of xslt 1.0, where the first-item-semantics
often meant you weren't aware of a problem until long after the
transform.




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Andrew Welch
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