Subject: RE: [xsl] when to use xslt From: "Mark Lundquist" <ml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 13 Jan 2005 13:33:16 -0800 |
> From: Henning Waack [mailto:henning.waack@xxxxxx] > > I'am looking for argument for and against xslt, that is when > is it useful to use (the functional language) xslt, when to > use some imperative programming language?\ It's not really a functional-vs.-imperative question. IMHO the test of suitability would be something like this: If you have input data in the form of an XML tree... ...and you want to do a transformation that will yield a result in the form of an XML tree... ...then you should first consider a language that is designed for transforming XML trees, such as XSLT, STX or XQuery. That's why those languages exist -- so that you don't have to reinvent the wheel. Obviously this suitability test can be stretched into something absurd, e.g.: input: <number-of-primes>6<number-of-primes> output: <primes>1,2,3,5,7,11</primes> Using XLST to do that computation would not be a great idea :-)... HTH, -ml-
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