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Re: [xsl] One-based indexes in XPath

2008-05-20 19:30:08
The woe for me however is having to counter the screams I'll no doubt get
from the library-developer (Javascript) users & also the hassle of
converting indexes on the external library side

This is the least problem you might have. Be ready to explain why an
xsl:variable cannot be modified...  :)




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On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 12:25 PM, Justin Johansson 
<procode(_at_)adam(_dot_)com(_dot_)au> wrote:
Thanks to Colin, Michael et al. for your input on this issue.

Personally I am not phased by 1 or 0 though I guess, after your advice, the
XPath 1-based idiom is the one I may as well favor in order to make for a
more seemless interface to my external XPath library.

The woe for me however is having to counter the screams I'll no doubt get
from the library-developer (Javascript) users & also the hassle of
converting indexes on the external library side.  Anyway the hit was going
to come from one side or the other (XSLT or Javascript) so I might as well
go with the XPath 1-based index idiom and get over it.  Since a lot of the
library side uses Javascript native code for Array functions, that will
cost performance there but, oh well, so what; premature optimization is the
root of all evil as someone once said.

Sigh & thanks, Justin Johansson




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