On Sun, 23 Jan 2005 17:13:23 +0100, Bryan Rasmussen <bry(_at_)itnisk(_dot_)com>
wrote:
hi
in any language there are likely to be syntax that is used less or more often
by
experts in the language than other syntax, often syntactical equivalents exist
for operations and it is preferable to use one instead of the other. in xslt 1
we can see that people hardly ever use attribute sets instead preferring to
call
templates, or that it is recommended to use an apply-templates template match
structure for a process that someone less adept at the language might use an
xsl:for-each for instead.
for those of you using xslt 2.0 i would like to know
1. what do you consider to be the most essential constructs of xslt 2.0
xsl:function and xsl:sequence, generally the usage of XPath 2.0
2. have these constructs caused you to decrease usage of particular syntax
from
1.0 in favor of the new syntax
Yes, I do not use xsl:call-template
3. has anyone observed the new ability of being able to increase the logic of
xpath statements has led to a significant decrease in usage of any xslt
syntax.
Probably the combined use of xsl:choose inside of an xsl:variable
is quite less now.
A question that you do not ask:
What constructs one uses most in XSLT 2.0?
For me the answer is:
functional composition.
And this is a natural result of using FXSL for XSLT 2.0.
So, one big result is that XSLT 2.0 + FXSL is something new, probably
not expected at all by the language designers. This combination makes
XSLT 2.0 a truly functional programming language, where (almost) any
function is a higher-order function. The only problem remains the
inability to specify function signatures for higher-order functions.
Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev.
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