Re: [docbook-apps] Why put a section's anchor in its title?

[Jirka Kosek <jirka at kosek dot cz>]

John L. Clark wrote:

> Will this enhancement also be merged into the XSLT 1.0 version of the
> stylesheets?  

I don't know. If someone from stylesheet developres will have time to 
implement this time-consuming change, why not. But I don't think that it 
is worth doing.

> What is the maintenance plan for that software?

If you mean XSLT 1.0 version of stylesheets I suppose that they will be 
extended and maintained for years from now. I don't expect that world 
will shoft XSLT 2.0 over night.

> > HTML output is basically working, but not all features (especially 
> > parameters) from the current stylesheets are backported yet.
>
> Do you mean forward-ported?  :)

Well, it depends on the point of view :-D

> It looks like XSLT 2.0 is still in Working Draft status, so I'd imagine
> that this module is experimental for the time being.  Are we pretty much
> restricted to Saxon for XSLT 2.0 support for the time being?

Yes, XSLT 2.0 stylesheets are far from the status when they could 
replace XSLT 1.0 based ones. But due to new XSLT 2.0 features a lot of 
things is easier to implement in XSLT 2.0. Stylesheets will not be 
forced to use external extensions to do some more advanced task, 
everything could be written in pure XSLT 2.0. Moreover many advanced 
features (like profiling or internationalized indexing) are part of 
standard stylesheets so there is no need to maintaing several code 
branches in parallel. Norm is the right person, who could elaborate more 
on this topic. You wil find some more information in essays on 
norman.walsh.name.

Currently Saxon 8.4 is needed to run stylesheets. There is also XSLT 
processor from Altova but I suppose thet it's not in shape with the 
latest XSLT2.0 working drafts from April.

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