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At 11:46 AM 3/6/2003, Andrew wrote:
Up there with <xsl:variable> in the list of all-time-confusing-things for beginners is the use of xsl:for-each, it really doesnt help anyone understand the idea of how a processor applies a stylesheet. At Mulberry, we don't teach xsl:for-each till late on Day Two. If you get templates, for-each is easy. If you don't, for-each is likely to fool you. Anything you do with a for-each, you can do with templates (and a mode if need be). In our course, students are writing stylesheets with modes on Day One (soon after lunch, if they're reasonably speedy). The only time this option isn't available is when writing a Literal Result Element As Stylesheet -- something that actually seems to happen fairly rarely in my experience. Cheers, Wendell
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