Extending XSLT
Yesterday I commented about XQuery moving forward in favor of XPath 1.0 and XSLT 1.0. Whether this is a good thing or not, Oleg Tkachenko has written a fine article concerning the XPath and XSLT extension, provided by the EXSLT.NET library.
EXSLT is a community initiative to provide numerous of powerful extensions to XSLT, and currently it defines more then 70 extension functions and elements. Extensions are broken down into a number of modules; Common, Datest and Times, Functions, Math, Random, Regular Expressions, Sets, Strings. An interesting side note is that the project is led by Dare himself.
With EXSLT.NET’s current status marked as stable it suggest you see for yourself what EXSLT.NET has to offer.