Michael Kay wrote:

>>My real "beef" is the 2666 line script. It has numerous
>>redundancies (i.e. duplicate code) and looks like a nightmare 
>>to maintain. 
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>It's a common problem. I once reduced a 2000-line stylesheet to 20 lines
>plus some data tables. There are lots of people who learn how to write
>concrete XSLT code without learning how to write it generically at a higher
>level of abstraction. The same is probably true of most languages.
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do you have an example? i'm working on a layout engine at the moment 
that's rapidly approaching that sort of complexity and i'd love to 
simplify it the way you described.

>Michael Kay
>http://www.saxonica.com/
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