Re: [xsl] Modeling matrices in an XML environment

["Liam R. E. Quin liam@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 10:28 +0000, Dr. Roger L Costello
costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> 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?

No - but use the best tool for the job at hand.

> 
> /Roger
> 
> 
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