> It occurs to me that the functionality provided by template
> rules represent an even more fundamental concept. In fact,
> functions are merely a subset of the functionality provided
> by template rules.
One man's fundamental concept is another man's syntactic sugar. You could
also adopt the viewpoint that xsl:apply-templates is just syntactic sugar
for a big switch statement.
That's not to belittle the concept - just to point out that what is
fundamental and what is superficial is a highly subjective judgement.
Regards,
Michael Kay
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