Subject: Re: [xsl] Quasi-Literals and XML From: Uche Ogbuji <uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 10:25:31 -0700 |
> I agree with you there. But that quote continues by saying that the most > damaging fact about XSL is that it is not Turing-complete and is therefore > severely restricted in the transformations it can express. > > My point is that in the first place the statement that XSL is not > Turing-complete is debatable Correct. > in the second place I'm not convinced that XSL > is severely restricted in the possible transformations It isn't. Of course, part of this depends on the context of "severely restricted". If all you need to ever do is translate Java to Python, then I guess you could probably say that XSLT is "severely restricted" as far as you were concerned. > and in the third > place I wonder whether there is a causal relationship between lack of > turing-completeness of XSL and restrictions in possible transformations. Nope. Regular expression processing, for instance, is not Turing complete, but I'd scof at anyone who called REs "severely restricted". -- Uche Ogbuji Principal Consultant uche.ogbuji@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx +1 303 583 9900 x 101 Fourthought, Inc. http://Fourthought.com 4735 East Walnut St, Ste. C, Boulder, CO 80301-2537, USA Software-engineering, knowledge-management, XML, CORBA, Linux, Python XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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