(1) XSLT is a complete programming language, but doesn't support
most things most developers need to do. (Graphics, networking,
relational database access, parsing HTTP headers, generating RSS
feeds, peer-to-peer networking, memory management & caching, thread
management, MIDI programming, the list goes on and on and on).
General-purpose programming languages also don't support those other
things, like talking to a database or sending email. There is no "send
email" or "update database" keyword/expression in Java/C#, you use the
language extensibility to accomplish those things, such as class
libraries. In XSLT you use extension functions/instructions, URI
resolvers, result document handlers, etc. You could do everything in
XSLT/XPath, you just need more libraries.
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Max Toro
On Fri, Oct 29, 2010 at 4:59 PM, Costello, Roger L.
<costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org> wrote:
Hi Folks,
I recently saw the following assertions. Can you help me refute them please:
(1) XSLT is a complete programming language, but doesn't support
most things most developers need to do. (Graphics, networking,
relational database access, parsing HTTP headers, generating RSS
feeds, peer-to-peer networking, memory management & caching, thread
management, MIDI programming, the list goes on and on and on).
(2) Java (and others) were also designed to be enterprise-class programming
languages. This means the assumption that many programmers will
collaborate
around a large project. Encapsulation and complexity hiding are very
important.
A strongly typed, compiled language (not interpreted) is also important.
In short, XSLT wasn't designed for "programming in the large".
/Roger
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