At 2022-12-08 10:52 -0700, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen wrote:
>are there analogous basic
>principles for program design which can be used to guide construction of
>a transformation in XSLT?

The focus/orientation of program design from the programmer's
perspective is the document order of the output, which is totally
independent of the document order of the input.

(though being the same helps)

(many students would ask me about "going back" and "fixing" or
"adding to" content that already has been processed)

That and the already mentioned distinction of push and pull comprise
most of the introduction lecture in my XSLT class.