Subject: Re: Language is not markup and markup is not language. From: Paul Prescod <paul@xxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 10 May 1999 05:59:28 -0500 |
David LeBlanc wrote: > > > P.S. Those who would argue that XML is a language might care to look up the > notion of Turing Completeness among other things that diferentiate a > programming language from a data structuring notation. You have put your finger on the reason that XSLT is different from a programming language. XSLT is not turing complete which means that there are a variety of optimizations and checks that can be applied that are impossible to provide in a programming language. It also means that XSL is easier to learn than an XML-optimized programming language because the set of concepts is much smaller than the combination of a programming language AND a sophisticated XML parsing/searching/traversing library. XML and XSLT both live on one side of the declarative/Turing-complete fence. Scripting languages live on the other side. We need both. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco The first three Noble Truths of Python: All that is not Python is suffering. The origin of suffering lies in the use of not-Python. The cessation of suffering can be achieved by not using not-Python. http://www.pauahtun.org/4nobletruthsofpython.html XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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