RE: What is XSLT? ( very long )

[Thorbjorn Ravn Andersen <TRA@xxxxxxxx>]

>  24. Forget all the crap about those 
>  Access-by-pointer tricks. Think pipes and 
>  dataflows. XSLT appears to be the first 
>  language which forces clean dataflows -
>  even it appears they were not understanding 
>  what they really invented. This happens 
>  very often.

In this regard XSLT shows its heritage from DSSSL which again looks like Scheme and LISP.  These functional languages have their force in those things that you like for producing clean data flows.

If you like this way of thinking, you should look into a modern functional language like "Haskell".  It will change your way of programming! 

 
> 2. Speed. If not providing some smart 
>  way to 'prebuild' some indexes - some 
>  parts could be darn slow or become 
>  horrible mess of key() statements.  

A smarter XPath optimizer would be a good project.

>  Research required.

Defintively :-)  and Discussion.

-- 
  Thorbjшrn Ravn Andersen   "...and...Tubular Bells!"


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