Re: [xsl] Relationships in for-each statement

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 01:00 PM 9/8/2006, you wrote:
> Dire Confessions Dept.: I'm a technical writer.

Ah well, that's why you can put a sentence together.

I might say your enthusiasm for binding variables then indicates, at 
least, potential, except I've just agreed with someone off list that 
neither I nor David Carlisle are computer programmers, so who am I to 
know? (And I hope David doesn't mind my saying so: being a 
mathematician ought to be enough. :-)

> This XSLT is going to replace a 500-line Perl program which a)
> imported all the XTVD data into a Perl structure b) filtered that
> based on my desired search items c) exported a new XML data structure
> d) which was then operated on by an XSLT sheet for prettiness. This
> new all-in-one XSLT sheet ... well, I'm pushing myself to get the line
> count down further, but it looks like 225 will be the leanest my
> feeble skills will get to right now.

Keep in mind that many of those lines are close tags, hence may not 
really count.

As for optimizing XSLT -- I'm not personally of the school that 
believes the best XSLT transformation takes the form of one of those 
single monster XPaths. (Though that might be true of XQuery. :-)

Cheers,
Wendell