On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 10:28 +0000, Dr. Roger L Costello
costello(_at_)mitre(_dot_)org wrote:
Liam wrote this really interesting paragraph:
The benefit to using maps or arrays over
elements in XSLT or XQuery is that element
nodes are too heavyweight, and too prone
to turning their content back into strings.
In XQuery in particular, constructors by
default do a terrible and dismal thing:
<x>3</x> makes a text node inside an x
element. And XDM element nodes have
a ton of properties, such as next, previous,
parent, schema type, is_happy, none of
which are needed for a matrix of numbers.
Yikes! Isn't that an argument against using XML and XSLT?
No - but use the best tool for the job at hand.
/Roger
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