[xsl] Push/pull

[Elijah Mori <elijah@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

XSL-List,

Many thanks for the advice about the default template rules. As for the 
unclosed element, that was a copy and paste error between xterm and 
mailnews, but well-spotted anyway!

I was reading some of Dave Pawson's collection of literature and came 
across a discussion of push and pull based stylesheets. Perhaps I am 
rather too new at this to understand the proper significance but it 
seemed as though 'pull' stylesheets are those in which you have your 
output structure explicitly in the xsl and you integrate the data from 
the source xml by selecting specific elements from the source document. 
The 'push' method, iiuic, involves recursive use of apply-templates in 
order to use the source document to dictate the output. Correct me if I 
am wrong.

The question I have got is that if you want your output to be radically 
different from your source (e.g. using an entirely arbitrary new order 
for the data and arbitrary extra presentation-level data like adjacent 
explanations or images) can you still use this latter method? It seems 
much the more elegant of the two approaches, but I am struggling to see 
how I can do it.

Regards,
Eli


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