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Sean Mc Grath wrote:
> 
> Okay! I'm half way there. An XSL processor is free
> to create the flow objects in any order it likes cos the place they
> are going in the resultant tree does not depend on creation order.
> Fine. The part I still don't get is how the rule might be
> triggered 1000 times?

It probably will not trigger 1000 times, but it *could* trigger 1000
times because the XSL spec allows this. Consider an XSL implementation
in a browser or wordprocessor. It might make sense to trigger a
construction rule when the user resizes the window or brings it to the
front. You might complain: but *my* use of XSL isn't *in* a browser or
wordprocessor. Right: that's why it isn't XSL. XSL is a stylesheet
language for use in browsers, wordprocessors, batch formatters and
similar environments, not for report generation. The spec. is optimized
for those applications and not for report generation. Thus it allows an
implementation to trigger construction rules whenever it feels the need
to.

Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

[Woody Allen on Hollywood in "Annie Hall"]
Annie: "It's so clean down here."
Woody: "That's because they don't throw their garbage away. They make 
        it into television shows."



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