Re: [xsl] XQuery basics

[Michael Ludwig <mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Andrew Welch schrieb:
> 2008/6/6 Robert Koberg <rob@xxxxxxxxxx>:
> > I was kind of joking with Andrew (perhaps my smiley was not enough to
> > indicate that). Andrew wants a way to use XSL files like some folk
> > use JSP or PHP (or in the case of eXist and others, XQuery). I don't
> > think it is a good idea from a memory (as Michael Kay reaffirmed in
> > his post on this thread) and functionality standpoint.
>
> How isn't it a good idea from a functionality point of view... what
> language is better than XSLT at creating markup?

Wouldn't you just end up spending a lot of work on extending XSLT to do
what its host languages - Java, Perl, PHP, all proven to work in the
application server by years of experience and development - already do?
It's not only about mark-up, but about so many other things - including
dealing with non-XML data.

Just think about the case of people insisting to generate CSV via, of
all tools, XSLT. While I do not doubt it can be done I wonder if it's
worth the effort when the solution is already at hand in the form of
your preferred general-purpose programming language.

> Standalone schema-aware transforms, generating strict xhtml by
> transforming xml returned from various queries (where the xslt, xml,
> and xquery are all stored in the same database) could well be the most
> common use of 2.0 in the future.

Storing the XSLT in the database?

Michael Ludwig