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On Mon, Mar 31, 2014 at 05:58:53PM +0100, Michael Kay scripsit: > > <xsl:template > > match="section[user:isNormalSection(.)]">...</xsl:template> > > > > and so on seems heavy and expensive compared to effectively a macro > > language for predicates > > I can't see why. I think you'll have trouble coming up with a macro > syntax that's as readable and concise; and there's no reason to assume > that function calls are expensive (a decent processor should be able > to expand the function call inline if it's simple enough to make that > worth doing). That's good to know. I certainly don't especially *want* new syntax, I want to avoid having to use that kind of horrible, horrible predicate again. > But of course XML has a macro notation as well, called entity > references, and I've seen that used to good effect in XSLT. True. Never occurred to me to try entities in a predicate, but (presuming a good way to define them all) that would work, too. Thanks! Graydon
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