Subject: Re: Attributes disinherited From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2000 14:20:08 +0100 |
Well, Francois, This comes from the "mix the metaphor up with other metaphors to explain it" school of thought, as opposed to the "switch to a better metaphor or give a more literal and accurate explanation" school (as does Mike Kay's suggestion that we talk about "controllers" and "components"). The general strategy (as you appreciate) is to take things so far over the top that no one can be in any doubt that we're talking in metaphors. (Sadly, however, experience tends to show that a certain capacity for irony is requisite.) That is, it works well if you first understand that we are using metaphors, and that some slippage between fact and analogy is not only inevitable, but in some instances, even to be welcomed. This is on topic for XSLT only insofar as it may serve as a reminder that "declarative languages work through metaphor, so take due caution" (which is a claim I might actually be willing to make if I understood more about declarative languages or, for that matter, metaphors). Cheers, Wendell At 12:27 PM 6/1/00 -0400, you wrote: >; >Very nice turn of phrase, Wendell. >It certainly helps explain to people how a machine doesn't consider an >attribute to be a child and yet how an attribute can have a parent >> >> Looking at 7.5 also illuminates a point we came across last week -- that >> attributes are disinherited, not being the children of their parents.... ====================================================================== Wendell Piez mailto:wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Mulberry Technologies, Inc. http://www.mulberrytech.com 17 West Jefferson Street Direct Phone: 301/315-9635 Suite 207 Phone: 301/315-9631 Rockville, MD 20850 Fax: 301/315-8285 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Mulberry Technologies: A Consultancy Specializing in SGML and XML ====================================================================== XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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