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Re: Procedural vs Declarative XML transformation approaches

• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@h...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Sat, 04 Nov 2000 16:34:30 -0500

Paul Tchistopolskii wrote -

> > Mapping that model to mixed content is, umm, difficult,
to say the least.
>
> This is why XSLT has both push and pull. ( because XML has
mixed
> content ).
>
> I agree with Matt. The only purpose of push is to serve
mixed content
> and mixed content is not easy to process without push.
>
> When data have a 'strict' schema, you're better not to use
'apply-templates'
> at all, I think.
>

Are you and Matt really thinking about mixed content (text
and elements) or are you thinking about ***unknown***
combinations - that is, there is a lot of flexibility about
what can come next?

Cheers,

Tom Passin

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