Re: [xslt] Benchmarking

["roger day" <roger nenuphar freeserve co uk>]

The are no assignments in XSLT. Period. Kay has a section "programming without assignment statements" in hsi Wrox book. To paraphrase him, assignment statements impose an order of execution - whereas, when downloading an HTML documents, a browser can begin to process any particular part as soon as it becomes available.

Which was why I was surprised to read that recursion testing had quite a low priority. But I can see that trade-offs have to be made, and compliancy has to be a priority. Speed can always be worked on.

Even Lisp has progn!

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Heiko Rupp" <hwr@pilhuhn.de>
To: <xslt@gnome.org>
Sent: Monday, October 22, 2001 16:18
Subject: Re: [xslt] Benchmarking


> Robert Koberg wrote:
> 
> > Recursion is VERY important in XSLT.  Most experienced XSLT developers would
> > recurse rather than iterate. That being said, it is still pretty fast.
> 
> 
> As there is no "for i=1 to 10" loop, there often is a need to rebuild
> this by recursion, so recursion is not only a "wish", but a "need".
> 
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