[XML-SIG] New stuff on w3.org

[uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com]

> Alexandre Fayolle wrote:
> > 
> > Since I believe not everybody on this list monitors the W3C website
> > closely (I, for one, do not), ...
> 
> > On Dec. 19th, XHTML Basic bacame a Recommentation.
> > On Dec. 20th, XLink and XML Base became Proposed Recommentations.
> 
> An even more interesting development is that a draft version of XSLT now
> has a formal mechanism for embedding other scripting languages. An
> example is at the bottom

Yes.  This was one of my more depressing discoveries of the month.

They couldn't just provide a node-set function, maybe some grouping 
primitives, and be done with XSLT 1.1.

Sigh.


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