Subject: Re: [xsl] XPath Against OpenXML and OpenOffice Spreadsheets? From: "Vyacheslav Sedov" <vyacheslav.sedov@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 13:50:37 +0400 |
Surely it fully depend on current task requirements. Also i forgot to remind that strings in OOXML spreadsheets can be "packed" into "shared strings" file. Very annoying feature. Regards, Slav. On Wed, Jun 4, 2008 at 1:01 PM, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> >> XQuery is better for this task - you can try eXist >> (http://exist.sourceforge.net/) for data retrieving. >> > > I would question that. In the work I have done with XML exported from MSWord > and Excel, I needed to make extensive use of XSLT 2.0 grouping facilities, > which have no direct equivalent in XQuery - the only way to achieve the same > effect in XQuery requires heavy use of recursive functions, which many users > find difficult to master. > > Michael Kay > http://www.saxonica.com/
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