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RE: XSLT Architecture: Next Step

Subject: RE: XSLT Architecture: Next Step
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2003 12:10:50 -0400
wendell architecture
At 10:59 AM 7/3/2003, Stuart wrote:
Although I accept that the inclusion of an <xsl:make-bacon-sarnie
burnt-to-a-crisp="yes"/> instruction would make a lot of programmer's lives
a lot more pleasant, it is clear to me that the functional nature of XSLT is
highly unsuited to cooking, which requires procedural, contingent, and
thread-based operations.

There are already a lot of questions on this list where people assume or try
to force procedural-style progamming out of XSLT, and a set of cookery
instructions would simply aggravate the matter.

This is true, but on the other hand XSLT (with appropriate extensions) might be very well suited for ordering dinner in a restaurant.


<xsl:plate match="premier">
  <xsl:apply-plates select="salad | pasta | $specials[@day=$today]"/>
</xsl:plate>

The details of how the food gets to the table could be left to the implementation.

Cheers,
Wendell


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