Re: [xsl] If XSLT is declarative, why doesn't it feel that way?

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

On Tue, 21 Apr 2026 12:27:55 -0000
"Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx"
<xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> How would you rename these procedural-looking words so that they are
> declarative-looking:
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> bapply-templatesb would be renamed to b&

use-template-value maybe? or simply evaluate
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> bcall-templateb would be renamed to b&

use-template, again, or evaluate, with @name
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> bselectb would be renamed to b&
select :)

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> bchooseb would be renamed to b&

choose

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> biterateb would be renamed to b&

recurse maybe.

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> bsortb would be renamed to b&

sort
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> bgroup-byb would be renamed to b&

group by

and xsl:for-each might be called xsl:combine (emphasizing that it can
be in parallel)

But getting consensus would be difficult :) and if the terms are too
"strange" people would find the result hard to approach.


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