Re: Designs for XSLT functions (Was: Re: [xsl] RE: syntax sugar for call-template)

["Clark C. Evans" <cce at clarkevans dot com>]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, David Carlisle wrote:
> J> as a non-recursive and fairly hacky solution.
> Hey I was going to post that:-)
> One man's (or woman's) "fairly hacky" is another's "more in 
> the XSLT style" 

Jeni's approach was very clever.  

> Personally an xsl:append looks deeply suspect to me, if it's required
> for functions why isn't it required for the almost identical situation
> of binding node sets to variables? If it is also required for that
> is "append" the right concept for a declarative language, or should it
> be more like
> <xsl:variable select="foo[postion('some named construct corresponding 
> to an xsl:sort setup') &lt; 5]"/>

This seems like a 'XPath' style solution, not really a XSLT
style solution.  *smirk*

Thank you both!

Clark


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