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Re: [xsl] Upgrading to XSLT 2.0


Subject: Re: [xsl] Upgrading to XSLT 2.0
From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 01:39:06 +0100

> My question: How easy/painful is this processor/language upgrade?

depends a bit on your existing 1.0 stylesheets. XSLT2's backward
compatibility mode ended up being quite good really (a lot better than
it appeared it was going to be initially) so if you have a pure xslt 1
stylesheet, chances are that it will run as-is if you don't change it at
all and run on an xslt2 system.

If your stylesheets use xslt 1 extensions then since you are changing
processor the extension namespace may not be supported in the new
processor, so you may have to change the code slightly, often there is a
built in xslt2 function (eg replace saxon6:node-set() by nothing, or
saxon6:output by xsl:result-document) Note that differences in supported
extensions is a problem due mainly to changing processors rather than
changing between xslt1 and xslt2 (if you switched between saxon6 and
xalan, you'd have to make simlar changes, changing saxon6:output to
xalan:redirect etc)

> Please forgive if this question seems a bit naove

Not at all naive, and it's a question thats going to get asked a lot in
the coming months, as (one hopes) they'll finally finish the xquery/xslt
spec process and xslt2 will become an offical REC. So many people
holding off using XSLT2 while it is still offically a draft spec will
start to seriously consider switching...

David


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