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Re: URL decomposition - Some things are better done outside of XSL!
Dan Morrison <dman@es.co.nz> writes:
> I have an enormous concern for avoiding server hooks at all times (I
> develop on three COMPLETELY different XSL transformers) but bending the
> language into doing jobs like this is starting to look silly. And it
> can't be efficient.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This is not true. while I can't comment on XSLT and it's
implementations, using recursion instead of iteration doesn't
necessarily mean overhead. Look at languages doing proper
tail-recursion (e.g. scheme where it is mandatory for _every_
conformant implementation)
jtl
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