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Hi again,
Just to clarify,
On 8/22/2012 1:29 PM, G. Ken Holman wrote:
The function served nothing more than a pedagogical use in my solution (which was only a modification of Ken's first solution, thus not a solution at all). It wasn't necessary at all, except for the purposes of (a) showing how a function works, and (b) showing how a function, in a case like this, can expose the logic in a way that makes it a bit easier to read and interpret, as well as to modify in view of new, or changing, or newly understood requirements.
In this it's not much different from
Of course I know it's only easier to read and interpret a function if one knows or can guess how functions work. (In this, a function is like a key.) But that isn't so hard, and learning how to read and interpret XSLT is part of the reason we're here.
Re: [xsl] Pattern Matching in XSl - find groups defined in one Xml in another Xml.
Subject: Re: [xsl] Pattern Matching in XSl - find groups defined in one Xml in another Xml. From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 22 Aug 2012 17:17:09 -0400 |
Hi again,
Just to clarify,
On 8/22/2012 1:29 PM, G. Ken Holman wrote:
I just can't figure out where function flexibility is needed ... I cannot see what needs to be tweaked that isn't simply in the groups.xml file.
The function served nothing more than a pedagogical use in my solution (which was only a modification of Ken's first solution, thus not a solution at all). It wasn't necessary at all, except for the purposes of (a) showing how a function works, and (b) showing how a function, in a case like this, can expose the logic in a way that makes it a bit easier to read and interpret, as well as to modify in view of new, or changing, or newly understood requirements.
In this it's not much different from
<xsl:variable name="complicated-xpath" select="complicated/xpath[if exists(name) then 'easier to understand']"/> <xsl:apply-templates select="$complicated-xpath"/>
Of course I know it's only easier to read and interpret a function if one knows or can guess how functions work. (In this, a function is like a key.) But that isn't so hard, and learning how to read and interpret XSLT is part of the reason we're here.
Cheers, Wendell
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