Re: [xml-dev] When you create a markup language, what do your parent elements mean? What do your children elements mean?

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David Carlisle <>
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"Costello, Roger L." <>
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2011-09-26T13:07:07Z
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Re: [xml-dev] When you create a markup language, what do your parent elements mean? What do your children elements mean?
On 26/09/2011 13:54, Costello, Roger L. wrote:
> XSLT takes a different perspective. XSLT takes the perspective that markup is a definition. For example, the following XSLT makes this definition: "For each cost element, c, c is greater than 0":
>
> <xsl:for-each select="//cost">
>      <xsl:variable name="c" select="xs:integer(.)" />
>      <xsl:value-of select="c&gt; 0" />
> </xsl:for-eac

It does?? That's rather a strange reading of that piece of code.

xslt uses many diffferent meanings of parent/child.
there isn't much in common in the relationships shown by

xsl:stylesheet/xsl:template

xsl:template/xsl:param

xsl:for-each/xsl:sort

xsl:for-each/xhtml:p

David



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