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Re: Abbreviated Location Paths...

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Kay Michael wrote:
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> Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx] wrote
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> > Does anybody else find the abbreviated location paths less
> > clear in XSLT than the verbose form? (The abbriviated form looks more
> > verbose to me).
> >
> My first impression is that the long forms are much more systematic than the
> short forms we are used to: they are therefore more comprehensible and also
> more extensible. But they are also very verbose!
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> I can't say I'm happy with the compromise of including both forms. That's
> always a bad design choice: twice as much work for the implementor, twice as
> many pages in the manual, twice the learning curve for users, larger and
> slower executables, twice the number of bugs.

Hardly. The implementation of the XSLT expression language in XT is
about 4000 lines of Java.  Supporting the abbreviated syntax takes less
than 40 lines.

James


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