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Re: Detecting presence of attributes
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] Detecting presence of attributes
- From: Peter Flynn <peter at silmaril dot ie>
- Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2001 16:16:28 +2400
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At Monday, 5 February 2001, Sebastian wrote:
>Now, now Peter, you know you were just looking for an excuse to say
>that. iterating over a space-separated list is easy in XSLT.
>recursion is NOT an evil, its an elegant programming solution
Good heavens, yes. I never said it was evil, merely tedious in XSL
compared with other syntaxes, when it should have been possible to
provide for iterative handling of ENTITIES as it would be for IDREFS.
Isn't it curious how so many users who would have thrown up their
hands in horror five years ago at the thought of writing stylesheets
by hand in -- shall we say -- FOSI or LaTeX, are laboriously
typing XSL in Notepad today with every evidence of enjoyment?
///Peter
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