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Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Re: "No ID for constraint linkend" when using html/profile-docbook.xsl
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:25:19PM +0100, Jirka Kosek wrote: > Daniel Veillard wrote: > > At some point I may simply just drop the ball, all these node-set and > >functions extensions are radical extensions from the XSLT-1.0 spec, they > >*completely* change some of the assumptions I made when I engineered > >the libxslt implementation based on XSLT-1.0 spec, especially w.r.t. to the > >lifetime of objects, scope of access of objects etc... > > But without these functions many things are really very hard to do. Do > you plan to support XSLT 2.0, which incorporates many of these functions > and extensions? Why do you think Red Hat would pay me to implement XSLT 2.0 ? It would probably take 6 months, I don't see how I could do this on my "ample" free time. What is the added value, what will it cost ? At what point does it make sense to continue trying to cope with overinflating specs ? Do you need XSLT 2.0 for DocBook processing ? If yes what point are missing from XSLT-1.0 ? Is XSLT 2.0 and XPath 2.0 really the answer to those missing points ? What is the business case of XSLT 2.0 that I could present to managers saying "our users need it because..." to try to get the okay to work on it for that timeframe ? Heck we still don't even have a decent XSLT-FO part for the toolchain, that sounds far more useful and critical than trying to jump on XSLT/XPath 2.0. In practice in the GNOME project we had to redesign/rewrite a new set of stylesheet from scratch because DocBook default ones are now too bulky for direct rendering from our Yelp help tool. I think the existing stylesheet are used sometimes for HTML output but jade is still used to produce the PDF/PostScript. Daniel -- Daniel Veillard | Red Hat Network https://rhn.redhat.com/ veillard@redhat.com | libxml GNOME XML XSLT toolkit http://xmlsoft.org/ http://veillard.com/ | Rpmfind RPM search engine http://rpmfind.net/
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