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> From: Jonathan Robie
>
> Hmm.... so this is procedural:
>
> for $b in document("bib.xml")//book
> return
> <publication>
> {
> $b/title,
> $b/author
> }
> <publication>
>
> And this is declarative:
>
> <xsl:template match="//book">
> <publication>
> <xsl:copy-of select="title"/>
> <xsl:copy-of select="author"/>
> </publication>
> </xsl:template>
Yes.
> I don't see why one of these is any more declarative than the other.
You wrote control code for the former. That is, the latter is less
explicit about asking the programmer to tell the computer how to
proceed.
Bill de hÓra
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