Re: [xsl] <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote>

[Roger <rxt360@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks for this insight Hugh! I was one of those for-each- 
programmers, never used apply-templates until recently. The way you  
put it here makes it a lot clearer. Of course I knew what the default  
template did, but missed the intention behind it. What I used to do  
was copy HTML into the XSLT, split it up using call-template, work my  
way down. What you're suggesting is in fact starting with a clean  
template, then adding modifications. That's quite interesting. It  
turns my XSLT-world upside down. And looking back it seems so strange  
that I didn't see this sooner (because it's so simple and basic).

Roger

> They can't seem to get it that an XSLT processor executes and has  
> default behavior - which can be modified by "templates" you supply  
> for each node in the input tree of nodes.. and that they are called  
> templates since you provide a template of what you want as  
> output.... you don't write procedural code to generate it.