[Xpath-ng] Thoughts on work products

Uche Ogbuji uche.ogbuji at fourthought.com
Thu Nov 21 19:05:23 MST 2002


> As for XSLT NG, it rather depends on how XSLT 2.0 defines its
> relationship with XPath 2.0. At the moment it looks like XSLT 2.0 will
> insist on XPath 2.0. In addition, some XSLT 2.0 constructs might be
> described differently with XPath NG (e.g. if XPath NG allowed
> sequences-within-sequences then the grouping facility in XSLT 2.0
> could be described in a different way). My guess would be that XSLT NG
> could be defined as XSLT 1.0 plus extension elements/attributes that
> mirror some XSLT 1.0 elements/attributes.
> 
> I don't know how others feel?

<aol>You said pretty much *exactly* what I had in mind (except for the neat 
idea about grouping, which I find exciting).</aol>


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