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RE: Various presentations, schema concepts, etc.

• From: Joshua Allen <joshuaa@m...>
• To: "'KenNorth'" <KenNorth@e...>, Rick JELLIFFE <ricko@g...>
• Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 22:47:15 -0700

> > XSLT's approach of allowing extensions (cheating) on a small
> > and targetted application domain seems to be pretty acceptable--it
> > forces you to use a different tool to solve the problems which (the
> > kinds of FP used in) XSLT is not great at.
> 
> This is consistent with the model used by several database 
> vendors -- allow
> Java extensions for adding types, behavior, and new SQL functions.

I think the model used by databases to extend functionality
for comparison purposes could be standard ANSI SQL UDFs.  Most vendors
I know support UDFs, and vendors such as IBM, Oracle, and Microsoft
allow various ways to extend functionality in a variety of languages,
including C++ and Java at a minimum (for the vendors listed above),
all as part of UDFs.

On the other hand, database vendors use UDFs to allow functional
extensions to SQL, which is more of a declarative language.  XSLT
could be considered a functional language, so would support a different
class of extensions.

Do I read an implied disapproval for extensions in the above
assertion that XSLT extensions seem to be OK?  In other words,
do you feel that allowing extensions is usually a bad thing?
I'm really just asking out of curiosity -- what sorts of situations
do you think are good for extensions, and especially where do
you think extensions are a bad idea?

Cheers,

Joshua Allen
Microsoft eBusiness West Region
"No challenge can withstand the assault of sustained thinking" - Voltaire

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