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> From: Manos Batsis [mailto:m.batsis@bsnet.gr]
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> | -----Original Message-----
> | From: Michael Brennan [mailto:Michael_Brennan@Allegis.com]
>
> | Reproducing XSLTs "default template" behavior is not always a
> | good thing.
> | I've always felt that I'd love to have something XSLT-like,
> | but which I can
> | exercise more explicit control over default behaviors. For
> | instance, if you
> | wanted to use an XSLT-like mechanism for implementing a web
> | service (rather
> | than a straight RPC binding), then you certainly don't want
> a default
> | template behavior that just copies text nodes to output.
>
> Absolutely. But things like a default behavior can save you
> from endless
> typing; just imagine XSLT without them. All I want to say is, it would
> be a good thing to have default behaviors and just turn them
> on or off.
> A mechanism for one to define his own default behaviors would be even
> better; I think this feature will be relatively easy to build
> since all
> you will need is "pattern matching" on SAX streams, which is the basic
> idea anyway. Actually, the nature of STX(?) may well *not* distinguish
> between such a thing and a pattern of your making, just think
> of it in a
> predefined pattern in the implementation that you can flag on or off.
That sounds like a reasonable approach.
> A more complex thing to deal with will be axis related stuff as the
> system will have to remember appropriate events according to desirable
> patterns...
Yes, indeed. I think it is reasonable to constrain what axes may be used in
an expression, here. That can greatly simplify implementation and still
serve a broad range of use cases. It is still a challenge, though.
This sounds like it will be useful. I look forward to seeing how this
evolves.
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