On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 10:52 AM, Graydon <graydon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 01:35:54AM +0100, Ihe Onwuka scripsit:
>> On Tue, May 21, 2013 at 12:02 AM, Graydon <graydon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> > <xsl:template match="node()">
>> >     <xsl:copy>
>> >         <xsl:apply-templates select="node()"/>
>> >     </xsl:copy>
>> > </xsl:template>
>> >
>> > does that; it's not recursive, it's a single template.  It'll get
>> > applied to all the nodes, but that's the magic of the XSLT declarative
>>
>> if it were only about  whether cognoscenti can think up an elegant
>> solution - we'd still all be doing Muenchian Grouping.
>
> To know about Muenchian Grouping, which is not, alas, elegant, merely
> effective, and not know about the identity template seem really odd.
>

Thats because there are two different conversations going on.

One is - if you really understood this stuff you'd think it was
great/intuitive/elegant.

The other is - I understand this stuff and for this genre of problem
(you can put re-namespacing  in the same basket) I think it's
cumbersome.