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RE: [xsl] XQuery basics
Subject: RE: [xsl] XQuery basics
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 23:32:33 +0100
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> well it depends for simple cases its easy enough to write a
> recursive function, essentially implementing apply-templates
> by hand
XQuery doesn't have any dynamic despatch mechanism so you can't emulate
apply-templates precisely. The caller has to know whom to call. That means
that the logic of your code is closely tied to the structure of your data in
a way that needn't happen with XSLT.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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