Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT vs Perl From: Rowland Shaw <Rowland.Shaw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 06:33:43 -0800 |
To twist that another way; There's nothing that XSLT could do, that Perl cannot; However, there are many things Perl *can* do, that XSLT cannot. For example, you could not write an XSLT transformation that acts as a mail server. Perl is not a functional language (per definition at http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh//faq.html#functional-languages ), where as XSLT fits that description (Perl would be classed as a procedural language, instead). -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of David Tolpin Sent: 03 February 2004 13:44 To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT vs Perl > In reality, XSLT is a handy tool to help transform XML from one form to > another; So, for example, it's trivial to write an XSLT transform that > convert RSS/RDF feeds into a list of recent articles on a website; and with > no extra low level programming (C++/Perl/etc) you can use the same libs to > do something completely different, like building a content management system > (that stores XML only) to spew out differing mark-up for HTML clients to WAP > clients. XSLT 2.0 is as much low level programming as Perl is for the same job. David 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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