Re: [xsl] Embedded bold,italic,anchors etc.

Having a few "doh!" moments at the moment. I already thought that  
using smaller templates was something I'd go back and change, having  
got the recursion working now I just keep thinking how crap what I've  
done is lol
Always the case in coding when you build something first time I guess.  
Fortunate thing is that I was only building a test page to test the  
new XML system our editors are using. When I build the CMS I can at  
least start again :)
Does it matter what order the recursion occurs in, I assume each time  
you <xsl:apply-templates/> it goes through every template again!?

Cheers

Craig


Quoting Wendell Piez <wapiez(_at_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com>:

> Craig,
>
> At 11:10 AM 6/11/2008, you wrote:
> > From what I have read I was probably using the value-of instead of
> > the recursive technique somebody suggested. For what it's worth this
> > is the code I have to date, I'm sure there's tons of things wrong with
> > it but that's part of learning! I can already see I'm not using
> > templates nowhere near enough! :(
> If it's any comfort, this is the thing that generally requires the most
> getting-used-to from beginners. Experts argue about why this is. But
> there is agreement that when possible, many small templates are greatly
> preferable than few larger templates, for a number of reasons both
> subtle and not-so-subtle. In particular, the "recursive descent"
> processing model allows the complexity of your code to be reduced
> exponentially in cases where your input structures are not perfectly
> regular, which is often the case with XML data.
>
> The recursive technique is bread and butter for XSLT. We live by it.
> Those who don't like it or have no use for it should probably be doing
> XQuery or something else altogether.
>
> Cheers,
> Wendell
>
>
>
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