Re: [xsl] Adding numbers in xsl loop

["J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>]

Ard Schrijvers wrote:
> I still don't understand, why in xsl simple programming code
> ( like for loops , not on the xml, but just like i=0 to 10)
>  is not included.

Not yet mentioned: the original design goal was to
get a language which makes describing transformations
like
  <todo-list>
    <todo>Today...<em>urgent</em>...</todo>
  </todo-list>
into
  <list-block>
    <list-item>
      <list-item-label>*</list-item-label>
      <list-item-body>Today...<inline font-weight="bold>
        urgend</inline>...
      </list-item-body>
    </list-item>
  </list-block>
easy and execution robust with respect to small
changes in the source XML. If general computation
had been the focus, the language would not have been
named XSL but XPL.

> Also like date function, etc.

This is actually a serious omission. After all, there
is also a format-number.

J.Pietschmann


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