Re: Re: Counting nodes efficiently

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Subject: Re: Re: Counting nodes efficiently
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 19 Feb 2004 15:53:53 -0500

At 03:01 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:

Using only "forward" is insufficient -- a tree is 2-dimensional (this is why
there are many possible traversal orders) and we use two independent axes --
"ancestor" and "preceding".

Of course. :-> But what makes this traversal interesting and different is that instead of relying on XSLT's built-in traversal of child nodes collected as a node list, it explicitly steps forward one node at a time. In the default traversal, the forward part is implicit (and as you know, XSLT requires only that the result come out *as if* the nodes are traversed forward in document order).

Since natural language rarely finds it practical to describe and specify all distinguishing characteristics of a given case, we usually encapsulate them by using a code or label that only hints at them -- and rely on context (as always) to disambiguate the rest. If the term sticks, it comes through use to denote all the particulars (because repeated use within a community of practice allows it to "carry its context with it"). Of course you know all this, which is why you asked for a native speaker's advice ... because what constitutes a good hint in a given case, before a term has established itself, is hard.

Anyway, glad to help. Words are fun.

Cheers,
Wendell


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RE: Counting nodes efficiently, (continued)
- Dimitre Novatchev - Thu, 19 Feb 2004 05:20:13 -0500 (EST)
  - Wendell Piez - Thu, 19 Feb 2004 11:55:20 -0500 (EST)
  - Wendell Piez - Thu, 19 Feb 2004 12:07:14 -0500 (EST)
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    - Wendell Piez - Thu, 19 Feb 2004 18:00:34 -0500 (EST)
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