Subject: Re: XSLT vs Omnimark From: Paul Tchistopolskii <paul@xxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:11:12 -0800 |
Vincent, First of all - thank you for the letter. > I don't know if some of you know Omnimark. It is a streaming > programming language and it works like XSLT but allows to include > programming instructions and can react to many more events (others than > tags). > I want to make use of one of this technology to process an XML file. Do > someone know some pros and cons of both "products" to help me to make a > choice ? I'l be also very interested to hear if somebody is using this ... strange ... product. I mean Omnimark. ( and why do the use it ). <omnimarksite> http://www.omnimark.com/develop/om5/index.html OmniMark is English-like, and task-specific. Rich, expressive pattern-matching makes OmniMark more readable and more powerful than Perl. </omnimarksite> Especialy I'l be very interested to know if there is something real behind the sentence above. Actualy, when I see such sentences, I become very sceptic about the product. Many of them tried to kill perl, but trying to kill perl in *that* area? Hardly possible, I think. Larry have build a great thing inheriting the most usesful ideas inveneted by some other smart people. I'm not talking about the implementation, but when somebody says : "we have better regular expressions than perl has" ... ) Looking at their examples I failed to find any answer why they are promoting this as a "Key Features and Benefits" N 1. Why OmniMark is more readable and more powerful than Perl? Maybe because they have 'letter' but not \w ? I think Omnimark is yet another eclectic (and wrong) reincarnation of perl. XSLT is absolutely different concept. I don't understand how those 2 things could be compared. We are not comparing XSLT with perl, right ? Rgds.Paul. PS. By the way - even I'm very interested to know better about any alternatives to XSLT, I think Omnimark vs XSLT looks like offtopic here. Omnimark vs Perl could be a cool topic for Perl-XML list. XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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