Re: [xsl] Re: Keeping a running total?

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 02:00 PM 7/12/2006, Colin wrote:
> Downsides:
>
> 1) Performance - functional languages are stil slower than 
> imperative languages, although the gap is closing.

And this is an issue for only some XSLT applications (perhaps a 
fairly small minority).

> 2) Large scale program structure - OO programming seems to have the 
> advantage here.

Yet without being an OO engineer, I'd guess also that sound OO design 
enforces the same kinds of discipline through encapsulation and other 
techniques. While XSLT doesn't offer this, exactly, certainly one 
could modularize a solution (which is effectively what Dimitre has done).

(As I noted in an earlier message, it would be interesting to see 
what solutions to the latest running total problem could be achieved 
without FXSL but using "plain" XSLT 2.0. In contrast, FXSL recommends 
itself both by being demonstrably capable, and by being already there 
for the using.)

Cheers,
Wendell