RE: [xsl] xslt style

[David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Jeni wrote:
>.... personally, I think
> that the only time you should use named templates is when the context
> node, position and size has no influence on the result of the template
> -- in other words when it's a pure function that computes its results
> based purely on the parameters that are passed to it. Otherwise, my
> preference is to use moded matching templates.

I'm rather curious about the logic behind this Jeni.
I can see the advantage of this class of use, in that it could then 
be used anywhere, in any stylesheet. Is that the rationale?

Your option of using moded matching templates I'm less clear on.
Lets say I have a named template that performs some function,
then uses the parent of the current node for something; is this
the use-case for the moded template?  
 It appears different from the 'I want only to have to write this code once'
rationale. 

I think this is another one to add to the debugging section.
Thanks Jeni.

Regards DaveP.


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