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Re: The top 10 limitations of XSLT 1.0 (was RE: RE: Designsfor XSLT functions)
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- Subject: Re: The top 10 limitations of XSLT 1.0 (was RE: [xsl] RE: Designsfor XSLT functions)
- From: Francis Norton <francis at redrice dot com>
- Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 11:45:04 +0000
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"Clark C. Evans" wrote:
>
> On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Andrew Kimball wrote:
> > If the top 10 limitations of XSLT 1.0 were solved, then I think the roar
> > of demand for xsl:script and xsl:evaluate would be reduced to a whimper.
>
> Hurray!
>
> > 1. The lack of real string comparison
> > 2. No support for dates
> > 3. No simple mechanism for grouping
> > 4. No querying into RTF's
> 5. More node-set operations: intersect, difference, and equals
> 6. Poor support for modulization (template calling syntax sucks)
> 7. No ability to create functions in XSLT callable from XPath
8. Support for file-spec skeletons in document() or in a specific
dir() function
Francis.
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