Re: are multiple predicates same as boolean and

Thanks, David for the answers ...

using 11 predicates for your stylesheets, must be doing quite
complicated transformations I believe.

On Fri, Nov 21, 2008 at 8:48 PM, David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> I haven't seen programs using 3, 4 or more predicates.
>
> I had a quick look at the stylesheets used in the day job and the most I
> see was 11 (although it could be written with fewer, especially with
> xslt2, but the predicates I found were originally written for xslt1 (but
> used with xslt2 now)
>
>
>
>> are excessively large number or predicates really useful? (the syntax
>> allows that ...)
>
> isn't that like asking if complicated expressions are useful?
> they are useful if you need them, othewise they are not.
>
> David



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Mukul Gandhi