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RE: Best way to handle multiple string replacements?

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My choice would still be to make those replacements with something
else.

When all you have is an hammer everything looks like a nail. But are
you sure you HAVE to do that in with XSLT???

I am sure I could implement something faster in C, Pascal, Perl,
Basic, Java... ok, I wouldn't go into assembler, but maybe even that
would be easier to code and maintain than those strange things you
are coding!


Anyway, it was a great mind exercise and I loved it.
(Yes... I also made some exercise trying to understanding it all...)


Have fun,

Paulo
(paulo.gaspar@xxxxxxxxxxxx)


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Sebastian Rahtz
> Sent: Tuesday, June 06, 2000 22:06
> To: Jeni.Tennison@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Cc: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Best way to handle multiple string replacements?
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> Jeni Tennison writes:
>  > My first objection was that I thought it would be relatively
> inefficient if
>  > you have a long piece of text and not very many substitutions
> to be made
>  > within it.  I could well be wrong on that (I'm no computer
> scientist) - out
>  > of interest, did you compare the performance of the two stylesheets?
>
> No, I am afraid I did not. I quite take the point, though. I was more
> concerned with (my notion of!) elegance, than performance.
>
> Lets face it, all these approaches are messy, like dogs walking on hind
> legs. This isn't what XSL is good at...
>
>  > My second objection was that it would get a bit more
> complicated when you
>  > had substitutions of things that were of arbitrary length (i.e. strings
>  > rather than single characters).
>
> I can imagine using "starts-with()" on each fresh chunk of text, but I
> have not though that through
>
>  > True, although the order of events would also be crucial (and implicit)
>  > within your method in the case where more than one character was being
>  > replaced.
>
> I think I was describing a solution to a traditional transcoding
> problem, which was what Warren *seemed* to have; you described a
> solution to a fairly spare replacment, which may well be what he does
> have.
>
>  > I would be interested to see the results of
>  > the performance comparison, if you do it.
>
> Sorry, I have to write an article for my daughters primary school
> newsletter
> tonight, about the family links programme. amazingly, it uses no XSL
> at all
>
> Sebastian
>
>
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