Subject: Pedagogy of Objects From: lachance@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Francois Lachance) Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2000 19:49:10 -0500 (EST) |
David, I do admire you pedagogical style. It always, for me, generates interesting takes. For example: > Easiest is first just sort the original and save the srted list in a > variable (which is a result tree fragment) There a difference between a "result tree fragment" and a "node set". But isn't saving a selected & sorted list of nodes saving a node set? BTW, has any one worked up a training resource which shows which type of XSLT objects can be transformed into other types of XSLT objects? E.g. neither a Boolean nor a Number nor a String nor a Result Tree Fragment can be converted into a Node Set but a Node Set can be converted into you guessed it.... Of course the Mulberry Technologies XSLT and XPath Quick Reference is wonderful in also listing the XPath Core Function Library along with the Object types (with convenient references to the relevant sections of the recommendation). Does anyone apply a functional approach [An invitation to students to explore a this-makes-that mindset] to XSLT teaching? Most of the materials I have seen begin and concentrate on matching and selecting. It is an approach that seems to also distinguish certain types of responses and questions appearing on the list. -- Francois Lachance Post-doctoral Fellow projet HYPERLISTES project http://www.humanities.mcmaster.ca/~hyplist/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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