Re: Microsoft XSL and Conformance

Phil Lanch wrote:
> Dan Morrison wrote:
> >
> > IMO, nested templates are an extremely useful metaphor,
>
> perhaps i don't grasp what you're doing in enough detail, but what do you
> want to do you can't do with xsl:for-each?  

True, that's a nice observation. I'll work in that direction.

I think it mainly sprung from my desire to break down my layout into
manageable chunks, where I was thinking 'sub-templates' rather than
thinking of the parsing as a processed language. Just a style thing I
guess.

After HTML'ing for years, I'm not aware of the parser that's sitting
behind my browser, tokenising my input stream and turning that into
commands for the layout engine. If something isn't laying out right, I
play with that cell or table.
That's how I 'chunk' the information.

Having investigated XML parsing code, which is blatently 'event-driven'
I can see how some folk would think of the processing of the input
stream as just that - a process. While I'm still thinking of the output
as being a collection of discreet results.

Ahhh. Sorry for my ramble. It's all just stylistic differences.
Obviously I'm not driving on the same side of the road as everyone else 
;-)

Thanks
.dan.

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