> XSLTers don't seem to have drunk the pattern kool-aid to the extent that
> Java and, it now seems, C++ programmers have, though I did get a similar
> question about XSL-FO patterns a week or so ago at my XML Summer School
> session on XSLT and XSL-FO.
>
> 13-or-so years of XSL-List hasn't crystallised into a set of standard
> patterns AFAICT (and Meunchian grouping for XSLT 1.0 was probably the
> closest we came to a standard pattern).

A few spring to mind - the identity transform, sibling recursion,
specific-imports-common, micro-pipelining etc.



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Andrew Welch
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