On 25/03/2010 16:32, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> > A clearer distinction is whether or not the program involves mutable
> state variables.
> Since XSLT variables don't vary, are all XSLT programs declarative?
>
> Surely that's not the case.
Basically yes. It's much more useful to apply the "imperative" or
"functional" adjectives to programming languages than to individual
programs.
>
> Would someone give an example of XSLT code that is clearly imperative?
Anything using saxon:assign
> /Roger
>
David
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