Re: [xsl] XQuery Updates in XSLT

[Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Oct 29, 2008, at 3:48 PM, John Snelson wrote:

> Robert Koberg wrote:
> > 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.
>
> Yes. It's a few lines of easily readable XQuery Update, versus a few
> complete XSLT templates and an explanation of how the identity  
> transform
> works.

Really? Show me how you use typeswitch (or whatever you would like to  
use) to handle the XSL equivalent of exception templates in a few lines.

-Rob


> John