Re: match on attribute anywhere

Cheers,
Wendell

This is really a very old pattern but in a new context.  In
object-oriented languages it is common to write a class which inherits
from another, overrides a method (or two), do some new stuff, then
call the base version of the same method to do what the base class
does.

Which is why I've been kicking myself for not thinking of the
apply-imports method first - I've been using OOPLs a lot of years, and
well know the correspondence between XSLT import and inheritance.  Oh
well.

The interesting thing XSLT has over OOPLs in general is that since the
method name is essentially the template match pattern you get to
overide many "methods" (templates) at once, as in the *[@mark] trick.
A new feature for Java 3 maybe...

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