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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: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:19:01 -0500
• Cc: Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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Rick Marshall wrote:

> perhaps we could do an informal survey here and ask when was the last 
> time you wrote a recursive function? and how many non-recursive 
> functions to do you write for every recursive function? how many 
> recursive functions could you have used instead?

Sure, I agree with you here. And this is, in fact, one of the reasons 
XQuery is more intuitive for most users than XSLT, unless they are doing 
the kinds of transformations involved in formatting documents with 
richly recursive structure.

Of course, XQuery does support recursion, too, but recursion is not the 
heart of how XQuery thinks for most processing.

I also think most programmers prefer a keyword syntax to an XML-based 
syntax for everyday programming.

Jonathan

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