Re: [xsl] Programming languages for manipulating, transforming, and analyzing data

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

On Wed, 2025-01-01 at 11:40 +0000, Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx
wrote:
> Hi Folks,
>
> XSLT and XPath are great languages for manipulating and transforming
> data--provided the data is formatted as XML.
>
> For non-XML data, AWK is a great language.

XSLT can also be good for many of the things awk is good for, now that
it can read text files.

XQuery is also pretty useful, especially with tools such as Saxon and
BaseX.

Although ibve never really needed statistical analysis tools beyond
what LibreOffice calc (spreadsheet) can do, and the occasional graph
plot, the reason i do a lot with Perl 5 is that it can do a lot of what
awk and find and bash do, but with better error checking.

liam

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