RE: [xsl] Porting own template language to xslt

[Peter Flynn <pflynn@xxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 11:16 +0000, Michael Kay wrote:
> I think that using xsl:for-each is the natural way to do this.

Interestingly I just had a Prof of CS call me for help (he's learning 
XSLT) and he thought it was completely unnatural -- semantically --
to use for-each just to switch contexts for a single node; that it 
should be kept for iteration over 1+ nodes.

> I toyed at one time with adding a construct such as
> 
> <xsl:with select="....">
> 
> that changes the context node without any iteration semantics, but it's
> functionality that for-each already provides so it just seemed like
> unnecessary baggage.

Sugar :-)

///Peter