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

["G. Ken Holman" <gkholman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 2010-10-30 22:01 +0100, Michael Kay wrote:
> On 30/10/2010 21:43, G. Ken Holman wrote:
> > There is no way (again: I know of) for
> > defining really new data types in a way comparable to, say, Haskell.
> This fact certainly defines a limitation of XQuery and XSLT in a way 
> that the absence of particular function libraries does not. The 
> languages are designed for processing XML, and the type system they 
> use is therefore strongly based on XML.

For the record, I didn't say that ... Wolfgang did.  I responded to 
it and quoted it in doing so.

. . . . . . . . Ken

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