RE: for-each within a for-each?

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Subject: RE: for-each within a for-each?
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 06 Mar 2003 13:25:07 -0500

At 11:46 AM 3/6/2003, Andrew wrote:

Up there with <xsl:variable> in the list of all-time-confusing-things for beginners is the use of xsl:for-each, it really doesnt help anyone understand the idea of how a processor applies a stylesheet. (IMHO it shouldnt be taught before apply-templates, but always is)

At Mulberry, we don't teach xsl:for-each till late on Day Two. If you get templates, for-each is easy. If you don't, for-each is likely to fool you.

Anything you do with a for-each, you can do with templates (and a mode if need be). In our course, students are writing stylesheets with modes on Day One (soon after lunch, if they're reasonably speedy). The only time this option isn't available is when writing a Literal Result Element As Stylesheet -- something that actually seems to happen fairly rarely in my experience.

Cheers,
Wendell


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for-each within a for-each? Mike Rudolph - Thu, 6 Mar 2003 10:58:59 -0500 (EST) <Possible follow-ups> Andrew Welch - Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:43:44 -0500 (EST) Wendell Piez - Thu, 6 Mar 2003 13:31:23 -0500 (EST) <= Mike Rudolph - Fri, 7 Mar 2003 10:31:29 -0500 (EST) Yates, Danny (ANTS) - Thu, 6 Mar 2003 11:58:46 -0500 (EST)

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