Re: [xsl] How to efficiently obtain the first 10 records of a file with over 2 million records?

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2023-07-20 at 02:19 +0000, C. M. Sperberg-McQueen
cmsmcq@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
>
> I have the impression (based on no hard evidence) that many of the
> people who used Perl and similar tools to get things done with their
> SGML data now use XSLT for all the things they used to do with Perl.

Once a month or so I still encounter people using sed to process XML.

Perl - less often. But that might be because Perl programmers are less
likely to ask questions - there's vastly more examples and
documentation.  I see questions around using XML (or XSLT) with Python
more often.

Maybe the DPH systems administrator type is more likely to be using
node.js and JSON these days.



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