Re: [xsl] Is xsl:for-each "syntactic sugar"?

["C. M. Sperberg-McQueen" <cmsmcq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 7 May 2010, at 11:36 , Dimitre Novatchev wrote:

> > It may be that (as Dimitre Novatchev suggests)
> > for-each may run faster.  And so if you run into performance  
> > problems,
> > consider trying it.  (But remember Jon Bentley's first rule of  
> > program
> > optimization:  don't do it until you know you need to do it.)
>
>
> I didn't suggest that "for-each" may run faster.
>
> I said that iterative constucts may be implemented more efficiently.
> (This is a general statement and we all know that efficiency varies
> accross implementations.)

Sorry.  Quite right, my paraphrase was careless and I thank you for
the clarification.

> This by no means should be interpreted as a recommendation to choose
> <xsl:for-each> over <xsl:apply-templates>.

That's a relief!

> To repeat once again my statement: Choose an iterative construct over
> *explicit* recursion, if this is possible.

Amen.

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