Re: [xsl] Modeling matrices in an XML environment

["Dr. Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Liam wrote this really interesting paragraph:

> The benefit to using maps or arrays over
> elements in XSLT or XQuery is that element
> nodes are too heavyweight, and too prone
> to turning their content back into strings.
> In XQuery in particular, constructors by
> default do a terrible and dismal thing:
> <x>3</x> makes a text node inside an x
> element. And XDM element nodes have
> a ton of properties, such as next, previous,
> parent, schema type, is_happy, none  of
> which are needed for a matrix of numbers.

Yikes! Isn't that an argument against using XML and XSLT?

/Roger