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Re: [xsl] including an XSLT 1.0 stylesheet in a XSLT 2.0 one

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On 06/01/2012 12:03, TW wrote:

Thanks Michael and David.

Do I understand this correctly: all XPath expressions inside an
element with version="1.0" are interpreted as XPath 1.0, even if the
enclosing elements have (or inherit) version="2.0".

they are evaluated as xpath2 in backwards compatibility mode (which is almost, but not quite the same as xpath 1) similarly all xsl instructions (notably xsl:value-of) are evaluated in xsl backward compatibilty mode.

(The other way

round, using the version attribute on an element inside a 1.0
stylesheet doesn't seem to be valid.)

xsl only allowed version on xsl:stylesheet so you can't nest at arbitrary points, but the original example of having different version= on different stylesheet modules being imported or included applies to xslt 1 as well.

There can be some confusing side effects from mixing versions, with
identical expressions behaving differently depending.., I think it's
probably better to stick version=2 on them all so you get consistent
behaviour. You can still use the styelsheets in an xslt 1.0 system on a
browser, the forward-compatible processing that happens in that case is
specified, so as long as the included modules don't use 2.0 features there
is no problem using then in a browser even if they say version="2.0".

So the benefit of putting version="2.0" on the imported stylesheets is
that it guarantees I have XPath 2.0 only, and if they are imported by
XSLT 1.0, they'll be handled in forward compatibility mode (XPath
1.0).

Thomas W.

yes

David

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