• From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
• To: Norman Gray <norman.gray@g...>
• Date: Mon, 30 May 2022 16:08:17 +0100

> 
> I still hate the syntax, and it sets my teeth on edge every time I come near it.  

I'm no great fan myself, but it's not the superficial things that bug me, like using angle brackets rather than curly braces, it's the fact that it's a two-language system (XSLT/XPath) without composability between the two; and if you fix that, then it's not just a different syntax, it's a very different language.

The use of XML does bring some considerable advantages, most notably the fact that there's never any problem extending the grammar with new features. By contrast XQuery tends to suffer the regex problem that every sequence of characters already means something.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• References:
  • The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: Roger L Costello <costello@m...>
  • Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@g...>
  • Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@f...>
  • Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev@g...>
  • Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: "Liam R. E. Quin" <liam@f...>
  • Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: Marcus Reichardt <u123724@g...>
  • Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@s...>
  • Re: The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world
    • From: Norman Gray <norman.gray@g...>