Subject: RE: Computational complexity of XSL processing From: Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Tue, 23 Feb 1999 09:02:37 +0000 |
Hi. Your points are valid, but my limited experience is already starting to show me that filters are damn useful. One instance where I've found it handy is to infer the "type" of a container based upon its content, which in some cases I find prefereable to hastling the back-end developers to include hard coded typing, and saves a proliferation of content models. Conditional processing if the result is just being tweaked, but basically the saem throughout, but if what one is doing with the result is markedly different in differing cases I find filtering preferable. I think as developers experience of XSL increases (I certainly place myself in this bracket) more creative uses of filtering will emerge. It's a bit like dHTML, the really creative stuff didn't start comming about until way after its introduction. In short, I'd be wary at this stage of predicting which aspects of XSL will be rarely used. Cheers Guy. xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 02/23/99 01:18:58 AM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID) Subject: RE: Computational complexity of XSL processing [SNIP] > > From my experience, people seldom really use extremely complex > match patterns anyway. Most people seem to treat match patterns > and select patterns much like a case statement nested inside an > if block. > Agreed. I've only found one case where I really needed anything more elaborate than "element-name", "*", "element-name/*", and "parent-element/child-element". I usually prefer to handle anything else by conditional processing within the template. If there was an inheritance mechanism that allowed more than one rule to be applied, it might be different. Mike Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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