RE: [xsl] XQuery basics

[Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 12:24 PM 6/4/2008, you wrote:
> > 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.

To say nothing of making a wholesale transposition or 
"transformation", as it is called, from one structure to another.

Of course, that's the job XSLT was designed for, and it'll be 
interesting to see how much reinventing of wheels there is on the XQuery side.

More than one smart person has derided XSLT's syntax. Maybe someone 
should disguise it as XQuery.

Cheers,
Wendell


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