Re: [xsl] Are there things missing in XSLT which force people to use, say, Java to process XML?

[Ben Mendis <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/29/2010 12:13 PM, Michael Kay wrote:
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>> I was just thinking that the current XSLT standard lacks interactivity, and was about to suggest an
>> element xsl:prompt for further revisions of the standard.
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> Streaming in XSLT creates the intriguing possibility of using the interactive input and output as the
> primary input and output of the transformation, with XSLT used to transform one into the other.
>
A perfect use case for this would be XMPP (Jabber). XMPP works by opening two streaming XML documents, one
for reading and one for writing. Stanza of XML are read from or written to those streams to communicate
between the Client and Server. When working with XMPP there have been times when I've felt like "this would
be really simple in XSLT", but since it's a stream and not a document I end up using other languages. An
XSLT-like language for streaming XML would be nice, but XMPP is pretty much the only place I've ever seen
streaming XML.

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