• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@m...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 10:03:42 +0100

> It occurs to me that the functionality provided by template 
> rules represent an even more fundamental concept. In fact, 
> functions are merely a subset of the functionality provided 
> by template rules.

One man's fundamental concept is another man's syntactic sugar. You could
also adopt the viewpoint that xsl:apply-templates is just syntactic sugar
for a big switch statement.

That's not to belittle the concept - just to point out that what is
fundamental and what is superficial is a highly subjective judgement.

Regards,

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
http://twitter.com/michaelhkay 

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