Subject: Re: Saxon VS XT From: Sebastian Rahtz <sebastian.rahtz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 2 Aug 2000 09:57:29 +0100 (BST) |
Paul Tchistopolskii writes: > I know about the key() ;-) I still want the *particular* usecase ;-) > > For example, I'm not sure that I'l abuse some part of pipe > with constant sorting / grouping if I can avoid this in principle. ;-) http://users.ox.ac.uk/~rahtz/xsltest/test6.xsl is my simplistic example. what's your alternate formulation? > Supporting output encodings other than UTF8 is easy with > UTF8 - to - some filter. If l have any need in such a functionality > I'l grab one of the output handlers from 4xt.org and hack one > of them. Should take not longer than 5 days. Is it a big deal ? Put like that, yes, it sounds a big deal, and well beyond my capacities. > To me - yes. They are not useless when / if you try to save > performance trying to use 'plain XSLT for everything' the use of keys for grouping/sorting is weird, but the concept of lookup tables seems eminently sensible to me. what about, for example, using a key table to build a back index of of links? so, if 5 elements have an IDREF link to an element X, we could list those 5 elements when we show X > On another hand implementing 'too much of XSLT' > ( like SAXON does ) *also* provides some problems. like what, exactly? > As I said in 4xt list - if somebody will really need key() > in XT - he'l implement that. I was using XT; I read about key in the spec; I wanted key in XT; I could not implement it; I switched to a processor that had it. Sounds a more likely scenario to me when it comes down to it, your real point seems to be that XT is "elegant". its probably true. but I am not sure that many of us can be bothered either way, its just one bit of software on the desk, and its not worth making a fuss over. The `elegance' that makes a difference to me is the XSLT language itself (thats what I actually see in my emacs buffer), and while I can intellectually appreciate that XT may be a marvel of engineering, it doesnt impact on me in my daily life. sebastian XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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