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RE: [xsl] The output of evaluating an XSLT transform is the same regardless of the order in which output elements are evaluated. Right?

2010-04-13 07:16:39
Ken Holman wrote:

I'm curious:  why is the "how" important?  I work with these 
technologies every day and I don't care *how* the processor fulfills 
the spec, as long as the spec is fulfilled.  A stylesheet writer's 
responsibility is to understand how the specification works.

Here are a couple answers:

1. I have a "gut feeling" that if I understand _why_ an XSLT document can be 
executed in parallel then it will help me write better XSLT documents.

2. I am trying to shift from an imperative mindset to a declarative mindset. I 
have always written XSLT in terms of sequential, step-by-step processing. The 
declarative mindset invites me to break out of that way of thinking, into a 
more parallel mode of thinking. I want to stop doing FORTRAN in XSLT. 
Understanding how things can be done in parallel will help me ... I think. 

/Roger

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