xml-dev - Re: Procedural vs Declarative XML transformation approaches

[Sean McGrath <sean@digitome.com>]

At 08:12 PM 11/4/00 +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote:

 >By procedural I
 >mean something that says:
 >
 >foreach foo element
 >         output "foo: "
 >         foreach bar element child of foo
 >                 output " = "
 >                 foreach text child of bar
 >                         output the text
 >
 >Mapping that model to mixed content is, umm, difficult, to say the least.

Using the Pyxie Python library the code would look like this:

for f in T.Elements("foo"):
          T.Seek(f)
          print "\nfoo = "
          for b in T.Children("bar"):
                  T.Seek("bar")
                  print T.JoinData()


What is difficult about that? (Or have I misunderstood you?)

Sean
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