Re: [xsl] Nicer way to change context-node than xsl:for-each ?

[Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

To make it clear: push is when the nodes determine what templates will
be selected for processing -- not when just the order of processing is
not guaranteed.

When we know what template will be selected for processing, then we
have pull processing.






On Mon, Dec 7, 2009 at 7:02 AM, Andrew Welch <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
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> 2009/12/7 Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>:
> > Andrew Welch said:
> >
> >>
> >> Push is simply where the document order drives the processing... not
> >> sure where modes or namespaces come into it.
> >>
> >
> > Pull is when you know B exactly which template will be selected for
> > processing -- the order of processing is not important at all (because
> > as we know in an FP language order is not guaranteed (except when we
> > take particular measures, such as using monad-like programming) at all
> > -- so even with pull processing we have no guarantees about the order
> > of processing. Note that other FP languages do not have the topic of
> > push/pull -- this is exactly because they dont have the possibility of
> > numerous matching templates.
>
>
> I think you are confusing the node list with the processing order -
> its how the node list is constructed that is push vs pull, it can be
> processed in any order as you know, but must be output in the same
> order as that node list.
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> --
> Andrew Welch
> http://andrewjwelch.com
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