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RE: XML Schema: "Best used with the ______ tool"

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Boris Kolpackov'" <boris@c...>
• Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:39:05 -0000

> XSTL/XQuery compare strings to access an element

You need to get up to date. Decent XSLT/XQuery processors stopped doing that
years ago!

> We will also need to convert the age value from 
> string to int in order to compare it.

XSLT/XQuery processors can maintain the age as an integer rather than a
string if they choose, especially if they are schema-aware. However, there's
a large class of queries and transformations that access the average node
less than once, and in those cases doing the conversion just-in-time, when
the value is accessed, is better than doing it just-in-case, when the XML is
unmarshalled.

A high-level language of course has much more scope to make such
optimizations; it can even make the decision based on its static analysis of
the query - as is done for example with document projection, where the parts
of the document that aren't needed by the query are discarded during
parsing.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

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