Subject: Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance From: Dan Morrison <dman@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 17 Mar 2000 05:15:49 +1300 |
Phil Lanch wrote: > Dan Morrison wrote: > > > > IMO, nested templates are an extremely useful metaphor, > > perhaps i don't grasp what you're doing in enough detail, but what do you > want to do you can't do with xsl:for-each? True, that's a nice observation. I'll work in that direction. I think it mainly sprung from my desire to break down my layout into manageable chunks, where I was thinking 'sub-templates' rather than thinking of the parsing as a processed language. Just a style thing I guess. After HTML'ing for years, I'm not aware of the parser that's sitting behind my browser, tokenising my input stream and turning that into commands for the layout engine. If something isn't laying out right, I play with that cell or table. That's how I 'chunk' the information. Having investigated XML parsing code, which is blatently 'event-driven' I can see how some folk would think of the processing of the input stream as just that - a process. While I'm still thinking of the output as being a collection of discreet results. Ahhh. Sorry for my ramble. It's all just stylistic differences. Obviously I'm not driving on the same side of the road as everyone else ;-) Thanks .dan. :====================:====================: : Dan Morrison : The Web Limited : :====================:====================: : http://here.is/dan : http://web.co.nz : : dman@xxxxxxxx : danm@xxxxxxxxx : : 04 384 1472 : 04 495 8250 : : 021 115 7339 : : :.........................................: : Every morning is the dawn of a new error: :.........................................: XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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