Xslt has been designed as a language with a purpose;
It was designed as a language with a purpose.
perl has neither of these attributes, hence perl's chaotic nature and
unmaintainabilty.
Same about perl and almost the same purpose. What about maintainability,
look at CPAN. Can XSLT dream about this volume of maintainable and usable code?
But I
think, as well, it's a matter of apples and pears. An XSLT application
would, IMO, also include Java or some other language. Perl fills in any gap
it can gets it's paws on,
A perl application typically includes code written in C, Java and other
languages, if needed.
but I'd rather use python if push came to shove.
What's the difference between Python and XSLT 2.0?
David Tolpin
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