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RE: Designs for XSLT functions (Was: Re: RE: syntax sugar for call-template)
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- Subject: RE: Designs for XSLT functions (Was: Re: [xsl] RE: syntax sugar for call-template)
- From: "Michael Kay" <mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk>
- Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 16:25:58 -0000
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> I must admit to being completely confused by XQuery. It seems like
> reinventing XSLT but without XML syntax for programming constructs
> (admittedly a fair step to take). I thought that it might be that
> XQueries are for building XML from things other than XML, but the
> XPath-like syntax seems to imply that the source (e.g. database) is
> accessed as a node tree anyway. I feel sure that I must be missing
> something.
I think XQuery and XSLT/XPath are on convergent paths: they are tackling the
same problems, and if each follows its natural course they will end up with
broadly equivalent functionality. But they are coming from different
traditions, and as a result they currently have different strengths and
weaknesses, as well as different syntactic appearance.
Mike Kay
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