Re: XQuery Updates in XSLT

Jesper Tverskov schrieb am 30.10.2008 um 00:09:33 (+0100):
> By the way, this is all the XQuery Updates needed to delete the first
> paragraph of an XHTML document:
> 
> delete node doc("test.html")/*:html/*:body/*:p[1]
> 
> Period.

<xsl:template match="/*:html/*:body/*:p[1]"/>

> The problem with the wonderful modified identity template is that it
> is more like an army even when one policeman would do.
> 
> XSLT has a problem if it is only good at total war.

Let me declare Total Template War on this Evil Document ...

Peace or war, sometimes I wonder why the identity template isn't the
default, built-in template. That would counter the proliferation of
templates (albeit only by one), and war would be less total.

Michael Ludwig