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Re: Hello XQuery ... Goodbye XSLT?

• To: Rick Marshall <rjm@z...>
• Subject: Re: Hello XQuery ... Goodbye XSLT?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 09:55:20 -0500
• Cc: Peter Hunsberger <peter.hunsberger@g...>, Richard Tobin <richard@i...>, xml-dev@l...
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Both XQuery and XSLT are non-procedural. To the extent that this is a 
well-defined term, which it isn't.

Jonathan

Rick Marshall wrote:
> the trick with xslt is that it's a specification of what to do, not an 
> instruction to do something. ie it is truly non-procedural.
> 
> the paradigm shift is from programming (giving a clear step by step set 
> of instructions) to specifying (if you have an x then do y). this is 
> subtle but critical.

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