Re: [xsl] Re: Re: Counting nodes efficiently

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Dimitre--

At 05:22 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
> I hope that the right term will prevail through being more frequently used.

Me too. "Forward walk?"

Generally terms like this are adopted either when someone comes up with a 
really compelling name and it sticks, or someone thinks up something so 
nifty and so useful that they wake up to find their own name on it. (Ask 
Steve Muench, whose name will be mispronounced by users of XSLT 1.0 
forevermore.)

But I don't recall who stole the forward walk from whom. I think I first 
saw it from either Mike Kay, or Jeni. (Naturally.) It's an interesting 
technique since it's essentially taking the trouble to do explicitly what 
the default traversal would do anyway, but allowing for particular tactical 
interventions (like testing or your counting). "Forced forward walk"? It 
sounds like a pirate ship.

Cheers,
Wendell


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