RE: Variables and constants

[sara.mitchell@xxxxxxxxx]

Well I would disagree about the call-templates issue. That 
one also fits something very common in stylesheet areas -- 
named templates to do repetitive formatting. 

I personally have used it to set up the code for standard
HTML headers/footers when the stylesheet was producing
lots of pages and different elements could kick off a page. 
I guess this is sort of 'procedural' but I never looked at
it that way...

Sara

>John Lam said: 
> Hmmm ... it would also seem to me that the presence of 
> <xsl:call-template>
> is a compromise that allows procedural programmers to adjust 
> to XSLT faster.
> I can't see any other really compelling reasons for its 
> existence. Please
> correct me if I'm wrong here.


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