THE XML REVOLUTION - TECHNOLOGIES FOR THE FUTURE WEB

XSLT 2.0

- currently a Working Draft

Major changes from 1.0:

using XPath 2.0 (which implies: using sequences and XML Schema primitive types)
- sequences replace the notion of "result tree fragments"
- sequences are first-class citizens that can be subjected to further processing
multiple output documents
(<xsl:result-document href="file"> template </xsl:result-document>)
better support for grouping (for-each-group)
user-defined functions (allow reuse of XPath expressions)
XML Base support
XHTML output method
XML Schema validation
- optional type annotations at variable/parameter declarations and templates
- dynamic validation
- static validation ("It is implementation-defined whether type errors are signaled statically.")

- no complete implementations yet (in particular, XML Schema support is missing)