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Re: Hello XQuery ... Goodbye XSLT?

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• Subject: Re: Hello XQuery ... Goodbye XSLT?
• From: Ronald Bourret <rpbourret@r...>
• Date: Thu, 11 Nov 2004 21:50:51 -0800
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Watson, John wrote:

> I find SQL/XML hits the sweet spot for me. Currently I need to interrogate a
> single relational schema in order to generate XML, which can later be styled
> to whatever output format is required using XSLT. SQL/XML is ideal - it
> doesn't require much more stuff to learn - just a bunch of XML generating
> primitives layered on top of nested queries, which is reasonably
> straightforward, although I find I easily get lost in the bracketing!

I'm curious as to why you use XSLT as opposed to just generating the 
result you want straight from the database with SQL/XML. Is it just too 
hard from a programming standpoint? Do you perform multiple transforms 
on the same result? etc.

-- Ron

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