Re: [Boost-docs] Exslt policy

Subject: Re: [Boost-docs] Exslt policy
From: Steven Watanabe (watanabesj_at_[hidden])
Date: 2010-03-18 16:04:56

AMDG

Daniel James wrote:
> Steven's patch uses 'exsl:node-set'. Do we have a policy on 'exsl'
> use? The only objection I can think of is portability concerns. But
> it's unlikely that we'll ever be portable so I don't think that holds.
> And some extensions seem to be quite widely implemented.
>
> According to the exslt site, libxslt's version of 'exsl:node-set' is
> based on an older version of the function, but I think the new version
> is backwards compatible so that should be okay.
>   

If we decide not to use node-set, I think I can rework the
patch to avoid it.  The original use doesn't help very much,
since I've made some more optimizations that reduce the
number of calls to fully-qualified-name, significantly.

In Christ,
Steven Watanabe