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Re: XSL as a Programming Language


At 15:41 20/07/2000, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:

>Perl is almost useless without the extensions written in C.

Now that's what I call flamebait!
Are you sure you really mean this Paul?

>Semantics of XSLT constructions is powerful enough +
>XSLT has one serious advantage comparing to other
>'traditional'  languages  - it is a first nice mix of dataflow
>with processing code.  Maybe there are / were better
>attempts - I don't know.

I would vote for Omnimark,
as a user of it.

XSLT isn't worth a pile of beans without
regular expressions, even if it has a lot
of nice "structural" functionality.

J

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