Subject: Re: [xsl] nested templates? From: Alex Black <enigma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 15:52:04 -0700 |
> I don't think that XSLT should be OO, but I argue in a book that I'm writing > that XSLT, in conjunction with Schema, XLink and RDF, works best when the > whole is considered as an OO system. XSLT serves as a mechanism for defining > methods on XML objects defined by schemas, schemas can be used as > constructors, inheritance is a natural consequence of the importing and > including mechanisms that XSLT has, and the stateless nature of XSLT > transformations makes concepts such as garbage collection pretty much moot. > The definition of encapsulation has to be stretched a bit, since you have > the multiple distinct conditions that XSLT makes it possible to create > methods that apply equally well to schemas that may have no particular > elements in common, but that are relationally similar. I think that's a stretch. I think this kind of code should be perceived the way it will exist in most system: a goober-mix of procedural and OO. pure oo is great for logic, but this stuff isn't really logic in the traditional sense. have a look at the millions of examples of markup embedded in classes, and you'll see my point: the two concepts of building large trees of hierarchically organization data with meta description is fundamentally different from the ides of (ex.) a transaction manager, which has a nice tightly defined set of methods. anyway, I love these kinds of arguments so tell me when to shut up. _alex -- alex black, ceo enigma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx the turing studio, inc. http://www.turingstudio.com vox+510.666.0074 fax+510.666.0093 XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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