Re: Unifying Iteration and Viewports

Alex Miłowski <alex@milowski.com> writes:
> On Wed, Mar 16, 2016 at 2:27 PM, Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com> wrote:
>> I vote “no”. If you want to work on other things first, fine, but I’m
>> not even remotely convinced that I should let go of the
>> viewport/replace functionality.
>
> We should certainly prioritize other things first and not spend too
> much time on replace/viewport right now.
>
> ...and, we can do what it does with the basic building blocks.

No, we can’t.

For any given instance of a viewport, it’s possible to combine
iteration with a bespoke XSLT stylesheet that will accomplish the
task, but that’s not really the same thing.

By that logic, you can replace all step chains with XSLT stylesheets
too.

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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Norman Walsh
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