Re: Template rules vs. XQuery (was RE:"*NEVER* use for

Hi Evan,

>         <xsl:when test="count(.|../@*)=count(../@*)">
>           <!-- built-in rule for attribute nodes -->
>           <!-- btw: someone please give me a better way to
>                test whether the current node is an attribute -->
>           <xsl:value-of select="."/>
>         </xsl:when>

In this context, you could use:

  .. and not(self::node())

In fact the root node has already been filtered out, so you don't have
to test whether this node has a parent. The other thing to be aware of
is that this matches namespace nodes too. But if you're only dealing
with a conversion from the matching template version to a named
template version then you're fine because namespace nodes can't be
matched on.

> Is there anything that I'm missing here? Or is there anything that
> could not be converted in such a way?

xsl:apply-imports? - there's no equivalent for named templates.  There
isn't a programmatic way of supporting that because you can't know
which next template is going to be processed without knowing what the
source is going to be.

I think you'd also start running into problems when you add support
for parameters in named templates - you could add them to your
applyTemplates template, but you'd have to take care of name clashes
(with possibly different default values) in it.  But that's a fairly
minor issue - just requires a generate-id()-ed modifier on the name to
make them unique.

Cheers,

Jeni

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