i feel compelled to counter that statement by mr Sax (I wonder if there's
not a mr Dom out there somewhere...)
- there's a fully featured, object-oriented XML language called o:XML.
it's not very hard to use, and to paraphrase Mike Sax it's power is
unlimited :)
the focus of o:XML is to process and generate XML, which makes it an
orthogonal technology to XSL. generate with o:XML, transform with XSL.
for more info see http://www.o-xml.org
i saw this and related newsitems about X# and found it quite interesting
that Microsoft show intentions to produce a functional language. how will
they get legions of VB and C# programmers to think functional rather than
imperative??
/m
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Mark Wonsil wrote:
There are some stories popping up that Microsoft will introduce a functional
programming language to process XML and called it X# (X-Sharp). It may be
of interest to some in this group. For some info:
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,808302,00.asp
The final quote comes from a person with an ironic name:
"Is there a need for this?" asked Mike Sax, CEO of Sax Software Inc., of
Eugene, Ore. "The only XML 'language' we have today is XSLT [Extensible
Stylesheet Language Transformations], which was originally conceived as a
way to transform XML data into presentation-centric HTML. Although XSLT is
fairly widely used, its power is limited, and it is fairly hard to use."
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