Re: Status

On Wednesday 01 February 2006 23:35, John L. Clark wrote:
> In order to take stock of where this project lies and perhaps infuse it
> with some new energy, I started an ad-hoc status document[0] that
> catalogs some of the outstanding issues that I believe ought to be
> addressed by the community in some form.
>
> I think that we should spawn new threads on this list for any of the
> individual topics raised in the article.  The article currently only
> covers substantive issues, but I plan to extend it to procedural issues
> in the near future.

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I know that several people have also expressed interest in a 
method="exsl:xhtml".
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XSL-T 2.0 has this..?

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baseURI and documentURI (January, 2002) 
These are extremely obvious (at least to me), and I'd like to get them in.

EXSLT URI [Encoding] function proposals (August, 2003)
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As mentioned in the article as well, XPath 2.0 provides this?

Wouldn't it be a great idea to not duplicate what XSL-T 2.0 already provides? 
The XPath/XSL-T/XQuery specs are well written, strongly specified, and backed 
up by a good test suite. I see several reasons: 1) Spend energy on stuff not 
already done; 2) it's difficult and labour intensive to achieve a result of 
the same quality the XSL/XQuery WGs did; and 3) don't fragment the market and 
don't compete with XSL-T 2.0, that makes everyone happier.

I see the purpose of EXSL-T as to improve interoperability. Instead of that 
implementors implement their own similar but slightly different extensions, 
it's done in a standardized way. I think that thinking would be enhanced by 
filling the holes XSL-T 2.0 has, instead of adding a similar but slightly 
different layer.

Personally, what I would like to see is strong specification of what the 
extensions does, and a test suite. The XSL-T 2.0 WG is working on a test 
suite, and perhaps that format can be re-used for specifying a future EXSL-T 
test suite. On the other hand, perhaps I've gotten brain damaged by reading 
F&O and the others..


Cheers,

		Frans