On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote: > On Wed, Dec 07, 2005 at 11:54:09PM -0500, Joel E. Denny wrote: > > On Wed, 7 Dec 2005, Daniel Veillard wrote: > > > > >but it's not anything there is > > >normative prose about nor regression tests to check behaviour. > > > > That's too bad because it seems to work so well if the required > > declaration order is known. > > > > Although I'd rather stick with pure XSLT 1.0, I'm thinking about solving > > my problem by calling EXSLT user-defined functions in the match pattern of > > an xsl:key. However, after reading this discussion > > > > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=122483 > > > > I'm feeling slightly uneasy. Assuming there are no variable references > > anywhere in the dependency chain of the match pattern, this remains > > accepted/supported usage, right? > > I said I didn't intend to change things. This is an Open Source project > not some black box coming without sources !
I'm sorry I sounded offensive. It seems my wording was horribly ambiguous, and you saw the opposite of the meaning I hoped to convey.... By "too bad", I meant it's too bad the W3C didn't specify this so that I could use this feature and still write portable XSLT 1.0. As much as I like your implementation, I still want portability. I figure EXSLT may offer a lesser degree of portability, but it would be better than using an implementation-specific feature. I'm *not* "feeling slightly uneasy" about libxslt. I'm feeling uneasy about whether this EXSLT usage is portable. I was hoping you could shed some light since you're such a great advocate for the specs. > If you care about behaviour > provide regression tests, check the code, etc ... It's not like I ever > refused a good argumentation for some code or some regression tests. I > just refuse to change to make non-conforming behaviour ! I wouldn't want to persuade you to do otherwise. Thanks for your responses, and sorry again for my confusing email. Joel _______________________________________________ xslt mailing list, project page http://xmlsoft.org/XSLT/ [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/xslt
