Re: [xsl] XSLT programs that blur the distinction between program and data?

Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT programs that blur the distinction between program and data?
From: "Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat, 9 Apr 2022 18:13:22 -0000
On Sat, 2022-04-09 at 15:02 +0000, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>
> (1) An XSLT program may have some embedded XML
> (2) An XSLT program can modify itself at runtime.B 

Although i've done both of these, there's also
(3) XSLT can read an XSLT stylesheet as data and extract information
from it.  Which i've also done, e.g. to check there are templates
matching every element in a DTD, or to fish out some embedded
information.

liam


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