On Aug 14, 2004, at 12:01 PM, Wendell Piez wrote:
Well up-conversion has been going on along as e-text has. But XML is
only now beginning to catch up to where Omnimark and even Perl were
years ago.
One of the reasons I decided to try to learn XSLT 2.0 -- beyond the
citation processing -- was that I needed to work with a bunch of html
documents (I'm a scholar). I ran them through Tidy, and then used XSLT
-- including the new regex support in 2.0 -- to get the data into a
form where I could easily not only query against the data in eXist, but
also transform it into bibliographic records. That alone saved me ages
of time; 100+ records created in seconds.
If I knew how to program Perl or Ruby, I might use them instead for
some of this, but the new features in XSLT 2.0 are certainly useful for
me!
Bruce