Re: [xsl] XSLT Dead?

["Dimitre Novatchev" <dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 4/17/07, Steve <subsume@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> This one has me kind of stumped. Maybe I'm one of these people. What
> is the difference between for-each and apply-templates? I have a hard
> time even mentally comparing the two.
>
> One function iterates through a node set and the other matches up a
> template with a node based on a given context or passed mode. Is that
> the right answer, or close to it?


This is only what it seems on the surface -- going in depth reveals a
lot more fundamental differences and what actually are the benefits of
using xsl:pply-templates.

These benefits are actually the benefits of fully undrstanding and
using the features of the XSLT Processing Model.

For a more complete explantion do havelook here:

   http://www.stylusstudio.com/xsllist/200411/post60540.html

and on the other messages in that thread.


"xsl:apply-templates is much richer and deeper than xsl:for-each, even
simply because we don't know what code will be applied on the nodes of
the selection -- in the general case this code will be different for
different nodes of the node-list. Also, the code that will be applied
can be written way after the xsl:apply templates was written and by
people that do not know the original author."



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