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            • December 28, 2004

              Too important just to point to...

            • In a recent comment Dimitre Novatchev writes:

              snip...

              In this post he provides a link to the article "The Functional Programming Language XSLT - A proof through examples".

              While this was historically the first article on FXSL (published Nov. 2001), it is not the most friendly introductory material on the subject. It is also not a complete treatment -- a coverage of such important topics as *currying*, *partial application* and *dynamic creation of new functions* is provided in the second paper at the FXSL page -- "Dynamic Functions using FXSL: Composition, Partial Applications and Lambda Expressions"

              For best introduction into this topic I'd recommend my article and presentation at the Extreme Markup Languages 2003 conference, a pdf version of which is available at:

              http://www.idealliance.org/papers/extreme03/xslfo-pdf/2003/Novatchev01/EML2003Novatchev01.pdf

              There are also the presentation PowerPoint slides, but must be viewed with Office 2000 Powerpoint.

              snip...

              BTW... I dont mean to be ungrateful to Dimitre's compliments but the heart of the content and ultimatelly the most important part of what needs to be showcased is the above content and links. None-the-less Dimitre, thank you for your gratitude. The attention to FXSL is so very well deserved and so very important to the ongoing development of the XSLT development community. As such I will continue to find appropriate ways to highlight areas in which are important in understanding how to use FXSL in our code-base and subsequently have better and faster stylesheets because of this, built on a foundation that I absolutely believe should be standardized officially but none-the-less inherently through the work we all do with XSLT. I am currently in process of migrating my entire XSLT code base to FXSL and I will begin to showcase all code samples on this site with FXSL as its base. With as much code as I have to update I hope this can attest to just how important I believe this process to be.

              More on this soon! :D

            • Posted by m.david : December 28, 2004 09:47 PM GMT

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