On 7/19/07, Justin Johansson <procode(_at_)tpg(_dot_)com(_dot_)au> wrote:
I'm presuming that many would agree that a programming language
based upon an XML syntax is not pretty. However we all put up with
XSLT because at the end of the day it does a damm good job with text
processing despite the tedium.
I think it's actually one of XSLT's biggest strengths that it's syntax
is XML - the output markup sits easily in the code, nicely indented,
easy to read - looks pretty.
Do a similar bit of work with XQuery and your indentation starts
becoming difficult - that's why there's a common extension to
transform result tuples with XSLT. Also, there's an XML syntax for
JSP because it's just much better to work with when generating markup
output.
No tedium either - unless you mean literally text processing in XSLT
1.0 using recursive templates - which is tiresome now because we know
how easy it is in 2.0 and going back feels such an effort...?
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