Subject: [xsl] Re: RE: Converting attributes to elements and preserving the hierarchy From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2001 06:45:59 -0800 (PST) |
> > How do I decide when to use <xsl:for-each> or a template ? > > For beginners: always use template rules, until you understand them well > enough to know their strengths and weaknesses. > > For advanced users: use xsl:for-each only when you are absolutely confident > that the structure of the source documents handled by your stylesheet is not > going to change. > > Mike Kay For beginners and advanced users: using a functional programming style and a functional programming library in XSLT (one is to become available soon) you'll not need to use xsl:for-each. You'll need to use xsl:call-template once per function-library call and you'd have to use xsl:apply-templates in your higher-order functions (in case you'd be writing them). However, if syntax-level support for higher order functions is included in XPath 2.0 and XSLT 2.0, then most probably you'll not even need to use xsl:call-template and xsl:apply-templates in these cases. Even in XSLT 1.0 it would become the rule that the standard FP library functions are "wrapping" these xslt instructions within their code, so that the user can simply invoke the functions. As one person put it here, using a FP library will require "less thinking". I would slightly correct this statement -- it would require another way of thinking in which the programmer benefits from having the knowledge that solutions to general problems are pre-coded and re-usable and interconnectable for solving a vast majority of problems, which in the absence of this pre-coded knowledge would be "unique" and very difficult (time-consuming) to solve. Cheers, Dimitre Novatchev. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Check out Yahoo! Shopping and Yahoo! Auctions for all of your unique holiday gifts! Buy at http://shopping.yahoo.com or bid at http://auctions.yahoo.com XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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