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Re: [xsl] How to get UTC displayed on XSLT

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Hi Dennis,
   Thanks for your comments to my mail. Sorry my intention was not to
start a heated debate!

I see XSLT 2.0 as a strong language enhancement. Ultimately (covering
most of the use cases) input data is XML. XSLT 2.0 has strong
alignment with XML Schema (its philosophy and type system). Making a
language strongly typed has immense advantages (one advantage could be
that debugging cycle is reduced).

I also see XSLT 2.0 as a helpful language to write computational
stylesheets as well (with the availability of data typing and
xsl:function abstraction)..

Ofcourse also, if already lot of XSLT 1.0 code is already written and
has to be maintained, then there is no choice but to use XSLT 1.0 for
those projects.

Regards,
Mukul

On 8/24/05, Dennis Barb <dennisxmlwork@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> What does "pretty stable" mean? What you call "quite
> less risk" means "don't even think about it!" in an
> environment where XSLT is mission critical.
>
> XSLT 2.0 is:
>  - not a stable published specification and may still
> change significantly
>  - not widely implemented
>  - incompatible with XSLT 1.0 in some subtle ways
> that make
>     conversion of existing libraries risky
>
> I am not certain that my organization will EVER move
> to XSLT 2.0. We work with the type of data XSLT 1.0
> was designed for (documents) and have been using it
> for quite a while, quite successfully. XSLT 2.0 looks
> to us like it was designed to meet significantly
> different needs and for different people working with
> significantly different types of data.
>
> While XSLT 2.0 may meet YOUR needs better than does
> XSLT 1.0, I do not think there is much benefit in it
> for me. And even if there were, this would certainly
> NOT be the time; not until it is final and widely
> supported.
>
> Dennis
>
>
>
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