Subject: Re: Functional Language wasRE: [xsl] Re: declarative language, need for loops etc. From: "Kurt Cagle" <cagle@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 12:40:07 -0700 |
> XSLT and XQuery are complementary technologies, or they could be. > XQuery says nothing about data storage, and the intention is that > you can query a bunch of RDBMS, a file system full of XML documents > and a web service all at once with a single query, and return the > result as XML. Pipe it through an XSLT processor to get (X)HTML, > WML, XSLFO (PDF) or and SVG graph or comma separated lists. That's true, though I think as more databases move into a web services mode, the advantage of the anonymous data store becomes a moot point. You see this in the collections() function in XPath2, which loads in nodal connections from across a wide variety of sources, so long as those sources can be specified as URLs. Granted, with XQuery you can create standalone filters for database queries, but the question I have here is whether this feature will necessarily dislodge the generations of SQL programmers who are less inclined to use yet another query language. -- Kurt ----- Original Message ----- From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Sunday, October 20, 2002 4:55 PM Subject: Re: Functional Language wasRE: [xsl] Re: declarative language, need for loops etc. > Kurt Cagle wrote: > > ..., but I find there is nothing I can't do in XML Query I can't > > do in XSLT, while there is a great deal that I can do in XSLT that is next > > to impossible in XML Query. > > XSLT and XQuery are complementary technologies, or they could be. > XQuery says nothing about data storage, and the intention is that > you can query a bunch of RDBMS, a file system full of XML documents > and a web service all at once with a single query, and return the > result as XML. Pipe it through an XSLT processor to get (X)HTML, > WML, XSLFO (PDF) or and SVG graph or comma separated lists. > > J.Pietschmann > > > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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