[Simon St.Laurent]
>  tpassin@[...].net (Thomas B. Passin) writes:
>  >We all have to code to context, but I'll bet that just about everyone
>  >tries to minimize context-sensitive processing whenever possible.  I'd
>  >rather not do anything that adds to the context that needs to be
>  >handled.
> 
>  The biggest change in my recent work is that I'm taking context more and
>  more seriously.  I think it may be something we avoid early on, but
>  value later.
> 
>  The big lesson I get from XPath is that it's a great, even easy, way to
>  specify context.  That's something worth building on.
> 

I'll go with that.  Also, despite my wish expessed above, most of the
processing I do requires using contexts - and much of it is done with xslt.
But I was more thinking of SAX-like processing, where the more context to
keep track of the harder it gets.  This strengthens Simon's point, I think.

Cheers,

Tom P



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