RE: [xsl] nested templates?

["Chris Bayes" <Chris@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Tom,
Theory and real life rarely match up neither do life and production. I
didn't mean to have a go I just wanted to kick the idea around a bit as it
had occured to me more than once.

Ciao Chris
p.s. Did anyone see that Screaming J Hawkins documentary last night?

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>-----Original Message-----
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>[mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Thomas B.
>Passin
>Sent: 16 May 2001 22:16
>To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>Subject: Re: [xsl] nested templates?
>
>
>[Chris Bayes]
>
>> Thomas,
>> I think that is a completely bad example. That is completely flat and
>> doesn't give any insight into anything. You might as well have just used
>> goto for all the stucture there is in it.
>>
>
>[Tom]
>Depends on what you want to accomplish, Chris. I first wrote one like this
>when I was working with someone else who was creating spaghetti xslt code,
>and we both had to contribute to the pages.  It made all the
>difference.  On
>the other hand, all my stylesheets aren't like this by any means.
>
>I'm responding to the literal words in the original posting, which talked
>about "pages", and nesting templates so you could do the whole
>page at once.
>Of course, we don't know how general he was thinking his input
>would be.  He
>also mentioned 'production".  So I illustrated a way in which you could
>create a series of production pages from a clean, simple template
>that would
>be easy to customize, while avoiding the trap of getting lost in too many
>'little bits".  Different people could work on the different
>parts, and even
>run the corresponding templates on their work to test it.  That's a decent
>approach for "production".
>
>As for flatness, we don't know what would have gone into the component
>templates.  They could have been recursive as anything, who knows!
>
>One of the main points I wanted to illustrate was that you can use xslt -
>for "production-like purposes -to do without 1) betting killed by little
>dismembered bits, and 2) not get lost in a large, convoluted block.
>
>A model for everything?  Not at all!
>
>Regards,
>
>Tom P
>
>
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