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Wendell Piez schrieb am 24.11.2008 um 15:11:50 (-0500): > At 11:42 AM 11/21/2008, Michael wrote: > >I really liked the way Wendell Piez put it a while ago on this list: > > > > XSLT, especially XSLT 1.0, is at its best when the incoming > > data is well designed. When it isn't, one has to call on > > more advanced techniques such as processing text nodes > > explicitly. Of course, XSLT also exerts a gravitational > > pull on XML semantics, such that well-designed XML comes to > > be the XML that XSLT can handle without fuss. -- Wendell > > Piez, 30.09.2008, XSL-List > > I can hardly argue with that :-> except that David's case is > one we can probably trust not to fall into the category of > "redesign your XML and your XSLT will simplify". Depending on > the application and the constraints on the source data, some > XSLT is going to be computationally intensive no matter what > you do. David's 11 predicates might have been 23 predicates if > his XML were not so well designed. Those 11 predicates certainly have their place. I simply liked your physics metaphor so much that that I wanted to bring it back to the attention of the list :-) Michael
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