Re: Time library and XSLT formatting

Eric Bezault <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.eiffel.gobo.devel
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>>>>>> "Eric" == Eric Bezault <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>     Eric> What is the disadvantage in moving it back to the XSLT
>     Eric> library?  I understand that this is used at AXAR, but
>     Eric> everything in Gobo is included in the ECF file anyway.
> 
> The only disadvantage I can think of is for people like Peter Gummer,
> who avoid the entire XML library to reduce compile time. The date
> formatting functionality is really very attractive, and has no
> relationship with XML other than it was formulated by the XSLT working
> group. 
> 
> This is why I would favour putting it in a new cluster string/date.

In term of dependency, what I would really like to avoid
is to have a library A which depends (directly or indirectly)
on library B and library B which depends on library A.
As you already pointed out, library 'string' already
depends on 'date', so if we follow this policy we cannot
leave the XSLT formatting classes in 'date' library.
I guess moving it to string/date should be OK. I would
hope that the library 'math' does not depend on 'string'.

-- 
Eric Bezault
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