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Hello,
Imagine you have to express an inheritance of values in XML, for instance the overriding of style properties. Two designs come into mind: Design I: <style name="A"> <style-props prop-1="x" prop-2="y" prop-3="z"/> </style> <style name="B" parent="A"> <style-props prop-1="v" prop-22="yy" prop-33="zz"/> </style> Design II: <style name="A"> <style-props prop-1="x" prop-2="y" prop-3="z"/> <style name="B"> <style-props prop-1="v" prop-22="yy" prop-33="zz"/> </style> </style>
What do you imagine is a better design? Especially in concern of XSLT, when mapping these inherited styles to a different style paradigm, which uses only absolute styles. As the first labeled design is used in the implementations I work with, let us focus on this. How can I map it most efficiently to absolute styles? Creating a large variable for all mapped styles right at the beginning or map them just-in-time when found accepting redundancy in multiple mapping of the same style? In case the only way is the empiric approach to implement both ways and test which is faster in an XSLT engine, any links to such performance harness to reuse (preferable Java)? Regards, Svante
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