RE: [xml-dev] A more fundamental concept than functions: units of code t

["Michael Kay" <mike@saxonica.com>]

> It occurs to me that the functionality provided by template 
> rules represent an even more fundamental concept. In fact, 
> functions are merely a subset of the functionality provided 
> by template rules.

One man's fundamental concept is another man's syntactic sugar. You could
also adopt the viewpoint that xsl:apply-templates is just syntactic sugar
for a big switch statement.

That's not to belittle the concept - just to point out that what is
fundamental and what is superficial is a highly subjective judgement.

Regards,

Michael Kay
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