Re: [xml] support for xslt functions in xmllint schematron?

[Nic James Ferrier <nferrier tapsellferrier co uk>]

Daniel Veillard <veillard redhat com> writes:

>   If schematron really depends on XSLT support (bad IMHO) then it need to be
> removed from libxml2, and either made part of libxslt or another library.
> Definitely not a small change, my punition again for attempting to implement
> a spec which wasn't completely formalized (or for which the formal final
> spec was not available to mere mortals)...
>   Deadlock, as part of libxml2 this is not solvable, best way forward to really
> implement that would be to start deprecating libxml2 Schematron implementation
> and move it to another module. Probably not the best way to promote the spec.
> And if there is really a hard XSLT dependancy then sticking to a stylesheet
> based implementation (which should work with xsltproc) sounds the
> simplest.

If it's only a few functions could we just reimplement them in
libxml2's xpath?

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Nic Ferrier
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