Re: [xsl] XSLT Architecture: Next Step

["Kurt Cagle" <kurt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

> I think it has a different place than replace. XSLT is XML just as a
> Java Class is java (bytecoded of course). You can use java classes in
> C++ but it isn't exactly natural - a term used quite a bit on the list
> ;-). If I had need to manipulate a Java class I would likely choose the
> Java programming language to do so. If I needed to get access to
> relational database information, I would probably choose SQL.

XSLT, however, is remarkably useful for taking an XML representation of a
class and converting it into Java/C++/C#, etc., source code. XSLT2 is
actually even somewhat useful for doing the roundtrip though that gets to be
a wee-bit more problematic.

-- Kurt


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