On Tue, 2023-04-11 at 17:49 +0000, Michael Kay michaelkay90@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
>
> [The idea of "incremental" XSLT processors was, I think, that if you
> made a small change to the source document, the XSLT processor would
> be able to make corresponding adjustments to the result document
> without re-evaluatingB
There was an XML editor that used XSLT and XSL-FO internally - Serna
maybe?? - which i think attempted this optimization.
The idea that you can't inspect the output also lets an implementation
use a different representation, perhaps a lighter-weight one, for
result trees. E.g. you don't need to support sibling or parent axes.
But it was for sure overly onerous!
liam
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