RE: [xml-dev] RE: Declarative programming requires a different mindset

[Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt <STAMMW@de.ibm.com>]

Roger,

you may want to have a look at the examples in chapter 5.1 from
Skonnard&Gudgin, Essential XML Quick Reference (free download):
http://www.theserverside.net/tt/books/addisonwesley/EssentialXML/index.tss

There you may find examples for exemplar-based, procedural and declarative
transformations.


Mit besten Gruessen / Best wishes,

Hermann Stamm-Wilbrandt
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> A clearer distinction is whether or not the program involves mutable
state variables.

Since XSLT variables don't vary, are all XSLT programs declarative?

Surely that's not the case.

Would someone give an example of XSLT code that is clearly imperative?

/Roger