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> From: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@fourthought.com>
> 
> > Dou you have an XSLT implementation for this, yet?  I'd guess you'd need EXSLT 
> > (at least dyn:evaluate()) to make it work.
> 
> Actually only vanilla XSLT is required.  Abstract patterns just require a preprocess to do
> macro-expansion. (The guiding rule of symbolic/text processing is to things in a pipeline.)


Hmm.  But that means 3 passes are required overall: preprocess, compile and 
execute.  This seems a bit much.  It would seem that a pipeline within the 
stylesheet (using exslt:node-set) or dynamic sub-expressions (dyn:evaluate) 
are a sensible practicality here.

But that's a minor matter.


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Uche Ogbuji                                    Fourthought, Inc.
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