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Subject: Re: [xsl] Text value templates in XSLT 3? From: Florent Georges <lists@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2012 19:34:47 +0000 (GMT) |
"Imsieke, Gerrit, le-tex" wrote: B Hi, > Thomas Meinike has pointed [1] me to your XMLSS presentation on the > XPath/XSLT/XQuery 3.0 novelties. Among other things, you presented > XSLT text value templates [2], a feature that we didnbt see in the > current draft spec [3]. B Oops, good point, I didn't check the current draft and thought it was already part of it; I was wrong. > I think that itbs misleading because syntactically it looks like > XQuery where an arbitrary sequence may be created by the expression > inside the curly braces, while in XSLT the expression should > evaluate to a mere text node. B I am not sure why you think it should be only for generating text. Actually an interesting use case I've discussed with Eric van der Vlist, if the result of the expression is added to the output tree (and not its atomized text value), is to indent properly complex XPath expressions. B Thanks to the power of XPath 2.0 (and this is going to be even more true with XPath 3.0), the XPath expressions used in xsl:sequence are more and more complex, and need more and more to be properly indented and edited.B Which does not always fit properly being the value of an attribute (especially if the attribute goes true an XML parser at some point, loosing newline characters).B Using curly braces will then be an easy way to solve that problem (a la XQuery). B Regards, -- Florent Georges http://fgeorges.org/ http://h2oconsulting.be/ > [1] https://twitter.com/XMLArbyter/status/263220416817025024 > [2] http://fgeorges.org/papers/fgeorges-xmlss-xslt-trends.pdf#page=40 > [3] http://www.w3.org/TR/xslt-30/
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