RE: Simplify HAIRY xslt

> Wendell Piez wrote:
> >>     <res:choose>
> >>       <res:when test="*[name() = '{$prefix}:rule']">
>                                       ^^^^^^^^^^
> That's still weird. I suspect the OP meant something like
>    test="*[name() = concat($prefix,':rule')]
> 
> Even so, I personally would have to be pressed hard before
> putting code like this into my style sheets.

Remember this is a meta-stylesheet, it's generating a stylesheet in which
$prefix will be replaced by an actual prefix.

All programs that manipulate programs are potentially baffling, and where
the source and target languages are the same the scope for confusion is
immense. Nevertheless, it's a darned useful technique.

Michael Kay