Re: Syntax

/ Alessandro Vernet <avernet@orbeon.com> was heard to say:
| On 5/19/06, Norman Walsh <Norman.Walsh@sun.com> wrote:
|> Peephole (we really need a better name) is the component that takes an
|> XPath expression that (presumably) identifies an element and applies
|> the steps to that subtree.
|>
|> You could, for example, apply XSLT to each of the <chapter> elements
|> in a book without ever having to load the entire book into memory
|> (assuming your implementation was smart enough to evaluate the
|> expression in a streaming fashion).
[...]
| I thought I understood what you meant after reading your first
| paragraph above, and then I got confused by the second one. With what
| you are saying about applying an XSLT on each chapter of a book, how
| would the peephole be different than the for-each?

The for-each component, as I understand it, applies a step (or group
of steps) to each document in a sequence of documents.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
XML Standards Architect
Sun Microsystems, Inc.