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RE: [xsl] LINQ to XML versus XSLT

2008-06-27 07:06:15
From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew(_dot_)j(_dot_)welch(_at_)gmail(_dot_)com]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 9:18 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] LINQ to XML versus XSLT

I guess that we all agree that the new LINQ to XML API is the
greatest
thing to happen to XML for a very long time.

The greatest thing to happen to XML was its adoption for everything,
everywhere - this is just an API for processing XML using Microsoft
technologies... it's a bit insignificant in comparison isn't it?

It is a mischaracterization of LINQ to say it's just an API for processing XML 
using Microsoft technologies.  LINQ in a generic data access layer, similar in 
respects to JDBC in the Java world, but LINQ encompasses multiple technologies 
such as JDBC, ODBC, XML, in memory objects, etc.  It a single interface or 
paradigm to multiple data acesss technologies.  However, using LINQ to acesss 
XML documents is analogous to using XQuery on the XML document and LINQ to XML 
would be more appropriately compared to the XQJ specification in the Java world.


Andy.


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