Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT use cases; data-centric todocument-centrictransformations From: "Andrew Welch" <ajwelch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2005 13:59:21 -0000 |
> Having a single template is not weird, in fact while XSLT was > being designed it was thought to be such a common and > important use case that a special "easy" syntax was designed > for that case. The "literal result element as stylesheet" (or > in xslt2 terminoligy "simplified stylesheet") If your > stylesheet just consists of a single template matching "/" > you can drop the outer xsl:tstylesheet and xsl:template > element markup. <rant> IMHO, 'simplified stylesheets' are anything but simple and force the use of for-each over apply-templates - a bad thing when you are learning the language for the first time. Whatever the good intentions of the language designers were, simplified stylesheets provide no real benefits: they don't scale, they aren't any easier to learn and they ingrain bad habits. For people to really grasp XSLT the push style of processing really needs promoting first - maybe the identity transform should be the only stylesheet that is allowed to called a 'simplified stylesheet'? </rant> cheers andrew
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