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RE: Fwd: War of Attrition (was: Underwhelmed (WAS:

• To: <bill.dehora@p...>,xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Fwd: War of Attrition (was: Underwhelmed (WAS: XOM micro tutorial))
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 26 Sep 2002 12:38:08 -0400
• In-reply-to: <003001c2653f$c37a4370$1fc8c8c8@mitchum>
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At 10:32 AM 9/26/2002 +0100, Bill de hÓra wrote:

>It looked highly procedural to me, given those conditional blocks and
>assignments. Is there a Prolog or XSLT flavoured variant? That would be
>declarative.

Hmm.... so this is procedural:

    for $b in document("bib.xml")//book
    return
      <publication>
        {
          $b/title,
          $b/author
        }
      <publication>

And this is declarative:

   <xsl:template match="//book">
       <publication>
          <xsl:copy-of select="title"/>
          <xsl:copy-of select="author"/>
       </publication>
   </xsl:template>

I don't see why one of these is any more declarative than the other.

Jonathan

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