Subject: Re: How is this part of the XSLT specification to be interpreted? From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2000 09:19:50 +0100 (BST) |
> (Is that the way Knuth did it?) yes oh what a tangled web we weave. you write in web run tangle on the web and get pascal, run that run weave on the web and get tex documentation. Most programmers are impatient souls, and don't want tangle so the simplified version is write in xxx with structed documentation that the xxx processor will ignore so you can directly use the documented source as the program. use xxx-weave which extracts the documentation and interlaces it with pretty printed code. Some literate program enthusiasts regret the loss of the tangle side of things (which allows the source file to be structured in a different order to whatever syntactic constraints of the underlying programming language, but for most modern programming languages (and expecially for xslt) this isn't so much of a loss, the program can already be ordered more or less at will at the level of top level templates. pascal had rather stricter ideas, variables all declared at the top etc, with web the declarations can be (if you want) at the point you first want to discuss the variable and weave will sort out whatever pascal is required. David XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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