Re: [xsl] Modes - Necessary Construct or Syntactic Sugar

[Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 19/03/2013 08:58, Ihe Onwuka wrote:
> Suppose there was a genuine use case for modes. By genuine I mean the
> transform requires me to process the same nodes more than once and in
> different ways.
>
> Can I do this without using modes.
>
> The first thing that comes to mind is creating an separate stylesheet
> for the "2nd mode" and applying it's template rules via apply-imports.
No, this doesn't work. If you only have one mode, then apply-templates 
selecting a given node N will always select the same template rule. 
Modes are the only way you can have two different rules that apply to 
the same node in different circumstances.

Michael Kay
Saxonica