Re: [xsl] Best practice for typing?

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Sat, 2019-11-23 at 01:44 +0000, David Birnbaum djbpitt@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> 
> Is there a consensus about best practice with respect to possibly
> redundant
> typing? For example, we can specify a type using @as on corresponding
> <xsl:param> and <xsl:with-param> elements, but if the type is
> specified on
> <xsl:param>, it seems as if that might make it redundant also to
> specify it
> on <xsl:with-param>, 

Something not i think mentioned by others -

It helps to make your stylesheet resilient to change. Of course, it may
also increase the effort of making such changes, but the things you
need to change would in any case need review.

Liam

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