From: Michael Ludwig [mailto:mlu(_at_)as-guides(_dot_)com]
Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:58 AM
To: xsl-list(_at_)lists(_dot_)mulberrytech(_dot_)com
Subject: Re: [xsl] LINQ to XML versus XSLT
Colin Paul Adams schrieb:
"Scott" == Scott Trenda <Scott(_dot_)Trenda(_at_)oati(_dot_)net>
writes:
Scott> My reply is getting a little off-topic, but on the same
Scott> note, why haven't we seen a widely-used XML-based HTML
Scott> preprocessor language yet?
Pre-processors are just bad. (If you mean macro processors, that is.
If you mean transformation languages, such as XSLT, then you have the
answer to your own question.)
PHP, which stands for "Pretty Home Page", was surnamed "PHP HTML
Preprocessor" (a so-called recursive acronym, like GNU) when it was a
couple of years old, obviously in an effort to give it a more serious
appeal.
I thank that's what Scott was referring to, not macro processors.
As for XSLT in that role, it doesn't do SQL and send mail.
Actually, there is nothing stoping XSLT from doing either SQL or mail. As a
matter of fact Saxon has had SQL extension functions for quite some time and I
have been using them quite frequently to load and extract information from SQL
databases.
Andy.
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