Hmmm, perhaps it will ultimately be performance characteristics that
become the main reason to use Xquery over XSLT.
If you think the choice will be made rationally on objective criteria,
you are more of an optimist than I am. Since when did anyone choose
their programming languages rationally?
But when a choice has been made, it is often pleasant to rationalize.
http://www.faqs.org/docs/artu/ch04s02.html -- compactness and orthogonality
David Tolpin
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