Re: dynamic template invocation

Dear ac,

Higher Order Functions (HOF) are powerful enough for the solution of
any problem.

One needs just a little bit of practice in functional programming
(using a suitable language as Haskell) in order to gain the necessary
skills.

HOF's are in the process of being specified by the corresponding W3 WG
 as a standard feature in XQuery, XPath and XSLT.

Cheers,
Dimitre Novatchev
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On Mon, Sep 7, 2009 at 7:15 PM, ac<ac@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hi Dimitre,
>
> It is a nice solution with a clever and elegant <xsl:variable
> name="templates" select="document('')/xsl:template" />
>
> One can always pre-include the stylesheets into an integrated one, in a
> "pre-pass" to get access to the included/imported templates, which may not
> be so trivial especially for imported stylesheets.
>
> The context also needs to be parametrized, but mostly it does not seem to
> provide dynamic template mode selection which brings back the requirement
to
> use call-template on templates that typically have both name and match
> attributes, when running various process modes on the same source nodes
(eg.
> payroll trial, log, post, archive, purge), either with as xsl:choose or a
> saxon:call-template.
> There are different ways to get around the problem but none of them as
> elegant as <xsl:apply-templates mode="$mode"/> or variations thereof.
>
> I have encountered quite a few other "similar" use cases, as when
processing
> music, for example, with analysis, scoring, loging, debugging, performing
> modes, and for image and video processing, as well as for animation, case
> management, process modeling, ...
>
> I was suggesting and wandering if others feel that it may be a natural and
> useful improvement for the standard.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Cheers,
> ac
>
>
>> Search about FXSL. This feature is there (in B a way that is allowed by
>> the XSLT 1.0 language) since 2002.
>
>



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