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RE: XML-aware programming language?

• To: Howard Katz <howardk@f...>
• Subject: RE: XML-aware programming language?
• From: Murali Mani <mmani@c...>
• Date: Thu, 2 Dec 2004 14:01:39 -0500 (EST)
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
• In-reply-to: <JMEJKDCPGHHIANHOMPDBKENOCGAA.howardk@f...>
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Compare an XPath expression to the code needed to write it. I believe this 
should suffice. Just consider the following simple XPath.. you can guess 
the document..

prof[@pName='X']/student/@sName

best, murali.

On Thu, 2 Dec 2004, Howard Katz wrote:

> Agreed: that would be a fascinating and potentially very useful comparison.
> It seems odd to me that I've never seen an article comparing actual XSLT and
> XQuery code for say moderately complex operations. Lots of pontificating
> back and forth but no actual code comparisons that I'm aware of. Anyone know
> of any?
>
> Howard
>
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...]
> > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 9:37 AM
> > To: Jonathan Robie
> > Cc: Daniela Florescu; Michael Champion; xml-dev@l...
> > Subject: RE:  XML-aware programming language?
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > --
> > PITHY WORDS OF WISDOM
> > There is nothing more satisfying that having someone take a shot
> > at you, and miss.
> >
> > ________________________________
> >
> > From: Jonathan Robie [mailto:jonathan.robie@d...]
> > Sent: Thu 12/2/2004 9:06 AM
> > To: Dare Obasanjo
> > Cc: Daniela Florescu; Michael Champion; xml-dev@l...
> > Subject: Re:  XML-aware programming language?
> >
> >
> >
> > 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.
> >
> > 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.
> >
> >
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