Subject: RE: [xsl] XQuery basics From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:24:55 +0100 |
> "Is XQuery like XSLT such that I have to build a little > script that will copy everything from the source to the > destination and make the change or add the attribute once I > get to it?" > > In that sense the two are different aren't they...? XSLT's > recursive descent processing model makes it ideal for the > task, while in XQuery you would pretty much require XQuery > Update to do the same task. Yes. XQuery tends to work better when you want to extract a small amount of information from a large document and ignore the rest. XSLT tends to work better if you want to keep most things the same and make a few small changes. Of course there's a range of tasks between those extremes. Michael Kay http://www.saxonica.com/
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