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Subject: Re: [xsl] <quote>XSL is NOT easy</quote>
From: Roger <rxt360@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 00:08:29 +0200
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Thanks for this insight Hugh! I was one of those for-each-
programmers, never used apply-templates until recently. The way you
put it here makes it a lot clearer. Of course I knew what the default
template did, but missed the intention behind it. What I used to do
was copy HTML into the XSLT, split it up using call-template, work my
way down. What you're suggesting is in fact starting with a clean
template, then adding modifications. That's quite interesting. It
turns my XSLT-world upside down. And looking back it seems so strange
that I didn't see this sooner (because it's so simple and basic).
Roger
They can't seem to get it that an XSLT processor executes and has
default behavior - which can be modified by "templates" you supply
for each node in the input tree of nodes.. and that they are called
templates since you provide a template of what you want as
output.... you don't write procedural code to generate it.
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