Re: [xsl] combining multiple documents

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Steven,

At 10:52 AM 1/27/2008, you wrote:
> I have read the spec but I am obviously not as familiar with it as
> those that specified it. I admit, I am more comfortable with certain
> other well-known terminology.

If people were computers, XSLT could have used an entirely different 
set of terms, and avoided these issues.

For better or worse, however, we're not; we find alpha-renaming to be 
difficult. We'd rather reuse the words we know while attaching 
modified meanings to them. This facilitates analogical reasoning, 
which on balance is worth it for us, as it's extremely efficient 
(except when it's not).

> I do - at least I think I do - understand the implementation, I am
> just expressing a discomfort with the counter intuitive nature of the
> third parameter in key.

Indeed. But it's only counter-intuitive if you've got other 
expectations. If XSLT were your first language, your intuition 
wouldn't be so predisposed. Instead there'd be the problem of 
learning completely from scratch.

So -- that's why we have XSL-List.

Cheers,
Wendell



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