Subject: Re: [xsl] Modeling matrices in an XML environment From: "Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 16 Jul 2020 11:00:28 -0000 |
> 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? > It's an argument against using XML trees for working data structures when implementing complex algorithms - which is why XSLT 3.0 provides an alternative. Michael Kay Saxonica
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