"Wendell Piez" <wapiez@[...].com>  wrote in message
news:6.0.0.22.0.20040219173918.03581730@[...]..
>  Dimitre--
> 
>  At 05:22 PM 2/19/2004, you wrote:
>  >I hope that the right term will prevail through being more frequently
used.
> 
>  Me too. "Forward walk?"

Just "Tree walk"?

> 
>  Generally terms like this are adopted either when someone comes up with a
>  really compelling name and it sticks, or someone thinks up something so
>  nifty and so useful that they wake up to find their own name on it. (Ask
>  Steve Muench, whose name will be mispronounced by users of XSLT 1.0
>  forevermore.)
> 
>  But I don't recall who stole the forward walk from whom. I think I first
>  saw it from either Mike Kay, or Jeni. (Naturally.)

I have seen Jeni use tree walk several times and probably (don't remember)
she also used it the sense of replacement/analog to the classic identity
rule.

>  It's an interesting
>  technique since it's essentially taking the trouble to do explicitly what
>  the default traversal would do anyway, but allowing for particular
tactical
>  interventions (like testing or your counting).

This shows the benefits of trying to analyze into bits something that we are
accustomed doing automatically and as a one whole.

>  "Forced forward walk"? It
>  sounds like a pirate ship.

Nobody is being forced.

Maybe "micro-walk" or "serial-walk" ?
> 
>  Cheers,
>  Wendell

Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev [XML MVP],
FXSL developer, XML Insider,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html




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