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James Clark wrote:
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> Paul T wrote:
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> > Current Ux grep is implemented in ugly 2-step transformation,
> > when first transformation generates the stylesheet-to-be-applied and then
> > stylesheet-to-be-applied gets executed.
>
> I don't think that's ugly at all. Using a stylesheet to generate
> another stylesheet to be applied is a very powerful and general
> approach, which XSLT was designed to support (via xsl:namespace-alias).
> I would much prefer to improve XT to make 2-step transformations more
> convenient and efficient (eg allow them to be done with one invocation
> of XT).

What about xt:transform-node-set(nodexml, nodexsl) where nodexml and
nodexsl are 2 nodesets (or eventually result tree fragments), nodexml
being transformed by nodexsl.
 
It's still a 2 step transformation while being easily called within the
"master" transformation.

My 0,02 Euros.

Eric

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