Re: [xsl] XSLT & SQL

Subject: Re: [xsl] XSLT & SQL
From: "Charles Knell" <cknell@xxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 12 Jul 2002 06:38:42 -0700
O.K., let's grant Mr. SQL only standard ANSI SQL and fop or a similar
XML-FO processor. Unless ANSI SQL is enhanced by some sort of procedural
language (e.g., PL/SQL, T-SQL), you can't get access to the file system
or any external processes. XSLT assumes an XSLT processor operating on
data external to itself and thereby access to external processes.

SQL is a very high-level programming language with no concept even of
files. It deals in tables, views, indexes, etc. While all of these are
certainly implemented as files and even more primitive abstractions all
the way down to assembler code, SQL per se has no concept of them.

-- 
Charles Knell
cknell@xxxxxxxxxx - email


---- David Carlisle <davidc@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Ask him how he is going to produce a PDF file using ANSI standard
> SQL.
> 
> you can't produce a pdf file (in general) with XSLT either as you are
> likely to need some non-XML characters in teh byte stream.
> 
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