RE: newbie How to use "xsl:counter"

At 09:29 PM 5/11/00 +0200, you wrote:
>well i got the msxml 3 preview running and still looking how
>things/properties
>work. being a simple windows coder (Delphi/VB), i'll have to adapt to the
>asynchronous way of template matching and parsing that to present some data
>in various ways........
>
>thanks so far, also to the other participants, i'm going back to the drawing
>board....

Go for it. You'll find this style of processing is very different from
coding in traditional procedural languages, but extremely powerful and
quite simple for the kinds of jobs it was designed for.

For a beginner, the tricks are (a) recognizing that you're manipulating,
and creating, a complex data object, a tree, not a stream of text, and (b)
getting a grip on XPath expressions, which are optimized especially for
handling nodes in a tree but can be quite mysterious until you figure out
what they're really doing.

Good luck,
Wendell


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