From: "R. Mark Volkmann" <mark@...>
Date: 2005-06-21T23:27:01+09:00
Subject: Re: Ruby/REXML vs XSLT

Quoting Pit Capitain <pit@capitain.de>:

> John Carter schrieb:
> > Anyone ever tried to do something in both Ruby REXML and the samething
> > in XSLT?
>
> Look at http://www.martinfowler.com/bliki/MovingAwayFromXslt.html

In my opinion, the best thing about XSLT is XPath.  XQuery also supports the use
of XPath, but doesn't use XML syntax.  This makes it much more compact than
XSLT.  I think XQuery solves the issues raised in Martin Fowler's article.

A good XQuery implementation is Saxon.  This also supports XSLT.

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R. Mark Volkmann
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