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I'm really suprised that someone with a microsoft.com at the end of their email would issue this statement: "(why is an xsl:variable called a variable if it doesn't vary?) " The response to that query has been around a long time: http://www.biglist.com/lists/xsl-list/archives/200302/msg00620.html And so has the so-called workarounds to that "problem", which really hasn't been a problem for most XSLT developers once they're comfortable with the language. XQuery does indeed look cool, but it's about as cool as XPath 2.0, which is married to it, and XSLT 2.0, which benefits from that union. Anyone who can't grok XSLT 1.0 but can grok XQuery will be able to grok XSLT 2.0. Chuck White Author, Mastering XSLT, Sybex Books http://www.javertising.com/webtech http://www.tumeric.net ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dare Obasanjo" <dareo@m...> >A couple of us feel that XQuery will some of the problems with XSLT that have prevented it >from becoming the lingua franca for processing XML by the average XML developer. XSLT's >unnecessarily verbose syntax, limited set of useful builtin functions & operators and unfamiliar >programming model (why is an xsl:variable called a variable if it doesn't vary?) have always >made it seem inaccessible to many users who would otherwise benefit from it. XQuery fixes >these issues which makes it more approachable to the thousands of developers who have to >process XML data and have thus far limited themselves to object <->XML technologies , >DOM or streaming APIs because they couldn't grok XSLT. XQuery is hot.
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