Re: [xsl] formatting xml output: inserting newlines between generated attributes

["Abie Hamaoui" <ahama5@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

ok,
thank you *very much* wendell, david and michael.  your comments have been 
very helpful to me.  I'm amazed that this forum is free. ;)

abie


> From: David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx>
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> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] formatting xml output: inserting newlines between 
> generated attributes
> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:56:02 +0100
>
> > do you feel that vendors of 2.0 will still support
> > node-set() usage?
>
> I doubt it but if you wanted to have a 2.0 stylesheet that still sead
> select="xx:node-set($x)"
> rather than
> select="$x"
> then you could do so and use the xslt 2 facilities for function
> definition to define xx:node-set as a no-op function.
>
>
> > also, leaving aside compatibility issues, what do you think about
> > constructing a tree within one xslt vs. having a 2-step transform?
>
> If it's the whole document then it doesn't make a lot of difference, two
> steps is probably a bit kinder on the system as it can junk the initial
> input tree from memory  after the first step, but it is _very_
> convenient to process small chunks of document into a variable and then
> process them with a second pass in the same stylesheet, eg one pass to
> normalise several input forms, another to sort and number the result,
> ...
>
> David
>
>
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