Re: [xsl] Re: Re: variable definition reuse

["Laura Jenkins" <xsl_list at hotmail dot com>]

Dear Dimitre..
Could you please put some more light into the following lines you put??
>I think that using a partial application of a function is a complete
>and better solution to the so called "dynamic scoping" problem..

Could you please let me know any reference documents that i may refer to do 
that?? I havent got a clue of how to do that.
laura


>From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>To: xsl-list@lists.mulberrytech.com
>Subject: [xsl] Re: Re: variable definition reuse
>Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2002 11:10:48 -0800 (PST)
>
> > > 1. it is possible to do define element specific variables in a
> > > different file??
> >
> > Not through XSLT means. By definition, element-specific variables are
> > local to the place where you're processing the element. The only
> > variables that you can share across stylesheets are global variables.
> > If you were only interested in (for example) the exp-date element
> > child of the first Product in your file, then it would be fine.
> >
> > You could, however, do this through entities.
>
>Hi Jeni,
>
>A better approach is to treat the template that processes a specific
>node as function and to produce a partial application of this function,
>in which a number of parameters have been bound to specific values.
>This bindings will remain through the lifetime of the partial
>application (an RTF) and will be in place every time it is
>instantiated.
>
>I think this is very close to (or maybe exactly) what Laura wishes to
>have.
>
>Also note, that the binding are produced at runtime and could be
>dynamic, depending on specific conditions that are unknown in advance.
>This is another advantage over the entities approach.
>
>I think that using a partial application of a function is a complete
>and better solution to the so called "dynamic scoping" problem.
>
>Currying and partial application are available as part of the FXSL
>functional programming library.
>
>Cheers,
>Dimitre Novatchev.
>
>
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