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"Performance" in XQuery (Was: Re: Xquery for 'hard data probs' was RE: XSLT vs Perl)

2004-02-21 03:34:24
So we have one author on the subject of XQuery stating outright that
XSLT is more capable and another respected author stating that XSLT is
superior over XQuery in situations of manipulating in memory xml.

Hmmm, perhaps it will ultimately be performance characteristics that
become the main reason to use Xquery over XSLT.

Many thx for anyone's comments on this.

A word of caution when speaking about performance. Just have a look at some
recent threads of
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2004Feb/

and you'll see that by "performance" some members of the WGs understand
obtaining incorrect, distorted results faster -- for example, getting
unordered items as a result of a query.

We should clearly say: "No, Thank you" to such offers of performance and in
fact ask that the "performance" of producing incorrect results be reduced to
zero.

See for example:

http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-qt-comments/2004Feb/1006.html


Cheers,

Dimitre Novatchev
FXSL developer,

http://fxsl.sourceforge.net/ -- the home of FXSL
Resume: http://fxsl.sf.net/DNovatchev/Resume/Res.html




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