Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT vs Perl From: David Tolpin <dvd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 20:38:00 +0400 (AMT) |
> > XSLT 2.0 is awk with pointy brackets. What's the advantage of > > having pointy brackets in awk? > > I was not aware that awk had a data model or type system that was in any > way aligned with XML. AWK has neither of the two. AWK was an exaggeration. I was trying to emphasize the fact that use of XML syntax for structure is no more than syntactic sugar. Besides, a language with types which already require two levels of errata hardly benefits from these types. > > Let's be concrete. What is the equivalent of > > <a href="{../@code}.html"/><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a> new Node("a",href=>value_of(../@code).".html",value_of("title")); David Tolpin XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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