Subject: RE: [xsl] LINQ to XML versus XSLT From: "Houghton,Andrew" <houghtoa@xxxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2008 12:10:17 -0400 |
> From: Michael Ludwig [mailto:mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] > Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:58 AM > To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: [xsl] LINQ to XML versus XSLT > > Colin Paul Adams schrieb: > >>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Trenda <Scott.Trenda@xxxxxxxx> writes: > > > > Scott> My reply is getting a little off-topic, but on the same > > Scott> note, why haven't we seen a widely-used XML-based HTML > > Scott> preprocessor language yet? > > > > Pre-processors are just bad. (If you mean macro processors, that is. > > If you mean transformation languages, such as XSLT, then you have the > > answer to your own question.) > > PHP, which stands for "Pretty Home Page", was surnamed "PHP HTML > Preprocessor" (a so-called recursive acronym, like GNU) when it was a > couple of years old, obviously in an effort to give it a more serious > appeal. > > I thank that's what Scott was referring to, not macro processors. > > As for XSLT in that role, it doesn't do SQL and send mail. Actually, there is nothing stoping XSLT from doing either SQL or mail. As a matter of fact Saxon has had SQL extension functions for quite some time and I have been using them quite frequently to load and extract information from SQL databases. Andy.
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