Re: Java Transformation

I agree..  and its easy to understand the point from the example you quoted.

On 4/22/05, Kirkham, Pete (UK) <pete.kirkham@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> XQuery may be what you're looking for, eg:
>
> define function print-title ($t as element()) {
>   typeswitch ($t)
>     case element(preface) return
>       <div class="level1">{$t/title/text()}</div>
>     case element(chapter) return
>       <div class="level1">{$t/title/text()}</div>
>     case element(section) return
>       <div class="level2">{$t/title/text()}</div>
>     default return ()
> }
>
> vs
>
> <xsl:template match="preface|chapter">
>   <div class="level1"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></div>
> </xsl:template>
>
> <xsl:template match="section">
>   <div class="level2"><xsl:value-of select="title"/></div>
> </xsl:template>
>
> Not that I've used it, as I'd rather think in terms of transformations than
procedures, though for some of the hairier things I do in terms of code
generation the non-xml syntax may outweight the difference.
>
> Pete
>
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