http://www.mhonarc.org/archive/html/xsl-list/2011-08/msg00074.html
On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 2:35 PM, Michael Kay <> wrote:
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> On 16 Oct 2013, at 21:01, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
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>> Hi Folks,
>>
>> [Definition]
>> A quine is a computer program which takes no input
>> and produces a copy of its own source code as its only
>> output. The standard terms for these programs in the
>> computability theory and computer science literature
>> are self-replicating programs, self-reproducing programs,
>> and self-copying programs. [1]
>>
>> Below is an XSLT program that is quine.
>
> Not on that definition it isn't. It calls the document() function, so it can't claim to "take no input". A program that copies its input, and is then run on itself, is not an interesting quine.
>
> Michael Kay
> Saxonica
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