Re: [xsl] XQuery Updates in XSLT

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Scott Trenda wrote:

> I think John is confusing the meaning of "functional" here. Dimitre
> meant "functional" as in "based on functions/templates, like Haskell  
> or
> Scheme (as opposed to imperative)", and perhaps John interpreted
> "functional" to mean "it works, it's not broken".

I am sure John knows what functional means. I was commenting about the  
use of XQuery as opposed to xsl's identity template with some  
exception templates. It sounds like he think XQuery is better at this  
type of thing.

-Rob


> :)
>
> ~ Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Koberg [mailto:rob@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, October 29, 2008 2:06 PM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [xsl] XQuery Updates in XSLT
>
>
> On Oct 29, 2008, at 2:58 PM, John Snelson wrote:
>
> > Dimitre Novatchev wrote:
> > > On Tue, Oct 28, 2008 at 1:39 AM, Jesper Tverskov
> > > <jesper@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > > I have tested XQuery Updates in Saxon SA 9.1 and it works like a
> > > > dream.  I was wondering if something similar is going to be
> > > > available
> > > > in XSLT?  How can XSLT do without such a killer feature?
> > >
> > > Such a feature will be the killer of a nice, functional language, I
> > > agree... :)
> >
> > XQuery Update is still a 100% functional language - it's pretty good
> > at
> > succinctly expressing transforms that would otherwise need an  
> > identity
> > transform and some number of exception templates.
>
> This comment makes no sense. It is like saying a pogo stick is pretty
> good at getting you from point A to point B that would otherwise
> require a car.
>
> -Rob
>
> > John