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Re: Functional programming in XSLT
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Functional programming in XSLT
- From: David dot Rosenborg at pantor dot com
- Date: Sat, 17 Mar 2001 10:58:40 +0100
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Hi Joe,
> > More over, how do you explain the semantics of saxon:return
> > in terms of the current XSLT processing model?
> saxon:return is, I think, _fairly_ easy to explain in terms of the
> XSLT 1.0 processing model. You just need to augment the the data
> model a bit.
Well, almost anything could have a simple and natural explanation
if you redefine your universe.
> 'saxon:assign' on the other hand would involve a much bigger change
> to the XSLT semantics, but I think it's doable as well.
Doable but not sensible. It would pretty effectively prevent
important optimizing methods like, for example, lazy evaluation.
> I *think* that Mike Kay's brief description on the Saxon home
> page is well-defined in the context of XSLT 1.0 (if you assume a certain
> "natural" processing order), but it's not clear (to me, anyway)
> how it should interact with first-class result trees,
> saxon:function, and various other proposed extensions.
It may be well-defined in the context of SAXON, no more, no less.
Cheers,
</David>
David Rosenborg
Pantor Engineering AB
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