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RE: Formatting elements
- To: "'xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com'" <xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com>
- Subject: RE: Formatting elements
- From: Archie Russell <archier at doubletwist dot com>
- Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 11:16:45 -0700
- Reply-To: xsl-list at mulberrytech dot com
i'm kind of new to this, are you two saying add xml tags for the purpose of
giving xslt processors a place to grab hold?
if so, how do you choose where to put these?
-a
> -----Original Message-----
> From: sara.mitchell@ps.ge.com [mailto:sara.mitchell@ps.ge.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, October 10, 2000 9:28 AM
> To: xsl-list@mulberrytech.com
> Subject: RE: Formatting elements
>
>
> I agree, this is something that 'ought' to appear as a
> design pattern -- perhaps with some demonstrations to
> back it up. I've talked DTD design principles with
> several programmers who come from a data-background or
> are familiar with HTML (which does very little of this)
> and they are very suspicious (or incredulous) of the
> idea of adding wrapper elements. (In some cases, I
> literally think they didn't respond because their
> initial reaction seemed impolite!)
>
> It goes against the grain of their experience, but it
> can literally be a huge improvement both in simplifying
> the stylesheet and sometimes in improving response time
> (this one is _really_ counter-intuitive).
>
> Sara
>
> >DaveP wrote: (snipped)
> >
> > Often one additional wrapper in the source XML makes all the
> > difference in the world to the ease of processing via XSLT.
> > To be able to sit (sorry, template match) on the wrapper, and play
> > with the children (??) of that wrapper is a piece of cake compared
> > to matching on one of many, and chasing along the axis to do
> > something.
> >
> > There's a design pattern here... somewhere.
> >
> > DaveP
> >
> >
> >
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