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Subject: Re: The top 10 limitations of XSLT 1.0 (was RE: [xsl] RE: Designs for XSLT functions)
From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2001 10:50:30 -0700

> In defining a W3C spec for evaluate(), I would expect
> that to be a matter for debate. One option would be an SQL-like solution:
> 
> evaluate("item[@code = '$1' and @desc = '$2']", $code, $desc)

I do like this approach.

> I do think evaluate() is a very necessary extension to the spec,

Hopefully it can be tested out with an exsl:evaluate() first.


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