On Wed, 2012-04-11 at 20:36 +0100, ihe onwuka wrote:
[...]
> Suppose we did go ahead and code with imports, would it be possible to
> define a transform that mechanically transformed everything into monolithic
> XML.

I can think of a couple of strategies that might make this more
tractable.

(1) careful use of imports and priorities;

(2) modifying an XSLT processor (or getting someone else to do it) to
dump the actual in-memory representation of the template/pattern rules.

In (1) I'm thinking of things like making sure every template in (say)
tables.xsl, has templates that apply only to table//foo explicitly, or
that use a mode, or are named and the name has a table- prefix.

This is a bit like the restrictions large projects might place on
the use of C++ operator overloading.

Liam

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