Interesting question, John,
At 10:06 PM 3/18/2007, you wrote:
This may be a weird question, but what do you see in your mind's eye
when you imagine an XSL transformation happening?
I don't think I visualize anything, but when I was learning I
certainly visualized the XPath tree. I even had dreams in which I
climbed in and among the branches of the source tree, locating what I
was looking for.
I have also sometimes thought that some day some genius chemist will
implement XSLT as some kind of weird recombinant enzyme process. You
would fill a test tube with a solution in which all your templates
would be suspended (probably many times each), add a potion
containing source document enzymes, and shake.
Parsing, "compiling" and serializing for such a processor would take
significantly longer than processing the transform itself.
And of course, it would all be too tiny to see.
Cheers,
Wendell
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