RE: [xsl] Re: EXSL's dyn:evaluate() and XALAN vs. xsl:use-attribu te-sets

[David.Pawson@xxxxxxxxxxx]

MK wrote:
> I might be wrong, but I suspect this was part of the "should XSLT be a
> general-purpose programming language?" debate. Named templates are
> clearly a general-purpose programming construct, whereas 
> attribute-sets
> were designed specifically to emulate features in cascading 
> stylesheets.
> In the end, in  my view, general purpose programming constructs always
> win over special-purpose constructs.

Possibly, but in terms of generating readable code
with minimal repetition, attribute-sets are really useful
in the xsl-fo world, where the number of attributes gets rather high.

It allows sets to be collated nicely and re-used.

regards DaveP.


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