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Re: XML-aware programming language?

• To: Dare Obasanjo <dareo@m...>
• Subject: Re: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Jonathan Robie <jonathan.robie@d...>
• Date: Thu, 02 Dec 2004 12:50:57 -0500
• Cc: Daniela Florescu <dflorescu@m...>, Michael Champion <michaelc.champion@g...>, xml-dev@l...
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Dare Obasanjo wrote:

 >> Exactly, that's why as a programmer I'd rather stick with the
 >> language I'm doing most of the application development with anyway
 >> (i.e. C#, Javascript, etc) as opposed to dealing with the [familiar]
 >> complexity of that language plus all the idiosyncracies of XQuery &
 >> XML Schema as well.

To which I responded:

Hi Dare,

For the examples I've compared, I wind up writing about 4 times as much
code using that approach, and it definitely takes more time to write and
maintain that code.

Then Dare Obasanjo wrote:
> Can you give me the input XML and expected output so I can see
> whether XQuery really takes 4 times less code than E4X or C-Omega? In
> fact, I have an article due this month and that would be an
> interesting topic to cover.

Well, I said compared to C#, Javascript, etc. The specific examples that 
I have compared use SAX or DOM to process either pure XML or to create 
XML structures from relational databases. Your response indicates that I 
was talking about E4X or C-Omega - I wasn't.

I don't know E4X. C-Omega makes sense to me, but I wonder if it has an 
Ada problem.

Jonathan

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