[xslt] re: XSLT 2.0

[Bruce D'Arcus <bdarcus fastmail fm>]

Daniel wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 01:26:37PM -0400, Bruce D'Arcus wrote:
> > I imagine this is a not-uncommon question, but looking through the
> > archive, I don't see it recently.
> >
> > What are the plans for XSLT 2.0 support at this point?
>
>   No. The amount of work needed is way over the benefits and the time
> we can collectively spend to implement it so far. Plus it's not a REC,
> and except a couple of projects people seems not thrilled at the idea
> of implementing the beast.
>
> > I'm working on a project using XSLT 2.0*, and while I don't much like
> > the tie-in with XML Schema, there are other features that are really
> > useful for what I'm doing (temporary trees, user-defined functions, 
> the
> > document stuff, and grouping being the most obvious).  Would be nice 
> at
> > some point in the not-too-distant future to be able to run the
> > stylesheets using libxslt.
>
>   XSLT-1.0 + EXSLT sounds a lightweight version of what you want.
>
> > Also, I did some mention of language-based sorting.  What came of 
> this?
>
>   Low priority. Might be fixed to some extend when I can spare time on 
> it.
> If there is no bugzilla RFE associated, it may take even longuer...

Well:

a)  I'm not going to rewrite the stylesheets for XSLT 1.0 (it's been 
hard enough to do with XSLT 2.0), but if someone else wants to, that's 
fine.  I suppose there's a workaround in the abstract, that is.

b)  For a bibliography list -- which MUST correctly sort author names 
-- it's a major problem that libxslt doesn't correctly sort "O, Ó, P."  
I realize these issues can be complex, but Saxon handles them quite 
fine for my purpose.  Even if I had my stuff rewritten in 1.0, I can't 
use a processor that doesn't correctly sort.  So, Jirka added his RFE, 
and I second it ;-)

Bruce