Re: [xsl] Embedded bold,italic,anchors etc.

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Craig,

At 11:10 AM 6/11/2008, you wrote:
> From what I have read I was probably using the value-of instead of
> the recursive technique somebody suggested. For what it's worth this
> is the code I have to date, I'm sure there's tons of things wrong with
> it but that's part of learning! I can already see I'm not using
> templates nowhere near enough! :(

If it's any comfort, this is the thing that generally requires the 
most getting-used-to from beginners. Experts argue about why this is. 
But there is agreement that when possible, many small templates are 
greatly preferable than few larger templates, for a number of reasons 
both subtle and not-so-subtle. In particular, the "recursive descent" 
processing model allows the complexity of your code to be reduced 
exponentially in cases where your input structures are not perfectly 
regular, which is often the case with XML data.

The recursive technique is bread and butter for XSLT. We live by it. 
Those who don't like it or have no use for it should probably be 
doing XQuery or something else altogether.

Cheers,
Wendell



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