Re: [xsl] XSLT repetition constructs

["John Lumley john@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 05/03/2019 22:17, Dimitre Novatchev dnovatchev@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> It isn't correct to use "repetition" for a set of operations that are
> independent from each other and can be executed in any order or in
> parallel.
>
> In this group fall such operations as <xsl:for-each>. the XPath for
> expression, the ! (bang) operator and applying a function in the last
> location step of an XPath step-expression (sorry if I don't remember
> the exact terminology).
>
> All of these are *mapping" operations, like the map function in
> Haskell. These have nothing to do with repetition.

Note that the XSLT3.0 specification does actually describe these under a 
chapter heading "Repetition".....

And one can consider a mapping over a finite set of domain points as 
'repeat this function over each of these points' ....

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