Datatypes and XML Schemas Are Supported

If type checking and validation are important to your application, moving to XSLT 2.0 is a must. A basic XSLT 2.0 processor supports all the basic datatypes of XML Schema, while a schema-aware processor lets you define your own datatypes and use them in your stylesheets. Datatypes and schema support are discussed in Chapter 3.

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