[xsl] Reprocess template results in same stylesheet?

[Mark Lundquist <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear XSL experts,

There is something I find myself wishing I could do in XSLT, but I'm 
too inexperienced to know if whether it's even sensible.  I wish there 
were a way to apply  a template, where instead of the processor writing 
the template result to the output stream, it would push the result tree 
back onto the input stream where it would be available for continued 
processing by the same stylesheet.

My feeling is that this would offer several benefits:

1) Enabling data-driven "pull"-style processing that feels more like 
document-driven "push"-style processing;
2) Reducing the number of separate stylesheets (and the number of 
transformations in a Cocoon pipeline) required to achieve certain 
things.

However, this is all on a pretty intuitive level for me... I don't 
think I can yet converse intelligently enough about XSLT to really 
articulate why I think it, nor do I have the time to try.  Is there 
anybody out there who can say, "Yeah, I know exactly what you're 
talking about, and this would indeed be quite useful"?  Or, "I know 
just what you mean, but unfortunately it wouldn't work the way you'd 
expect, and here's why..."?

If you have no idea what I'm talking about, just don't bother 
responding, because I've already explained myself as much as I can.  
That way, if I get zero responses, I will conclude that I was just 
clueless to begin with, or that I'm getting what I deserve for not 
bothering to try to explain the idea any better... :-)

Thanks,
Mark Lundquist



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