Re: [xsl] How recursively iterate over entire document?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

At 06:47 PM 8/11/2005, you wrote:
> Thanks for your response.  Sorry, I neglected to say that I am using
> XSLT 2.0.  As for generating stylesheets to generate stylesheets...
> that's an idea I hadn't thought of.  That gives me some new
> possibilities to think about.

Yes, I think you're more or less going to have to go in that direction.

> I can do this sort of thing fairly easily with DOM, but I really
> wanted to use the advanced xpath 2.0 features that are not available
> to me there.

Right. DOM and the XSLT data model were defined for quite different 
purposes with quite different processing models. XSLT is explicitly 
designed to be "side-effect free", so as to be able to do nifty things like 
start styling a document from the middle, or process multiple template 
rules in parallel. What you are intending to do, on the other hand -- 
modifying the source document while it is in process -- is the Big Daddy of 
Side Effects. That's why you're having to use an extension function, 
evaluate(), even to get at your requirement.

> I'll keep hacking at it... maybe it will be a DOM/XSLT hybrid solution.

Maybe!

Cheers,
Wendell


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