Re: [xml-dev] Historical trivia: who introduced into XSLT 1.0 theconstru

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

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> I believe Rick was the first person to utilize the construct in a major way. He used it in Schematron.
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As a community, we only know a tiny amount of what is going on in the world.

As it happens, back in 1998 I did some consulting for a project that was developing an online banking application. This was written using WD-xsl, Microsoft's early implementation of a draft version of XSLT 1.0. The project made heavy use of the ability of XSLT to generate XSLT stylesheets -- every screen in the banking application had its own stylesheet; and to ensure maximum reuse of common components, and to achieve a common look-and-feel, these were all generated from a single master repository of template rules.

There's no reason why Roger, or Rick, or anyone else, should have heard of this project. But Roger, and everyone else, should be very wary of assuming that the only projects that exist are the ones that are developed in the public gaze.

Michael Kay
Saxonica