XSLT 2.0 is awk with pointy brackets. What's the advantage of
having pointy brackets in awk?
I was not aware that awk had a data model or type system that was in any
way aligned with XML.
AWK has neither of the two. AWK was an exaggeration.
I was trying to emphasize the fact that use of XML syntax for
structure is no more than syntactic sugar.
Besides, a language with types which already require two levels
of errata hardly benefits from these types.
Let's be concrete. What is the equivalent of
<a href="{../@code}.html"/><xsl:value-of select="title"/></a>
new Node("a",href=>value_of(../@code).".html",value_of("title"));
David Tolpin
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