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RE: Bad programmers use recursion, xslt (Offtopic...)

• To: "'Tatu Saloranta'" <cowtowncoder@y...>,<xml-dev@l...>
• Subject: RE: Bad programmers use recursion, xslt (Offtopic...)
• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 10:06:36 +0100
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> So would there perhaps be also room for other xml
> transformation approaches, besides dominant functional
> alternatives? (but above 'wrap your own SAX-based
> solution' level)

The best-known such attempt is probably STX[1], which is a language for
defining streaming transformations. Because you only get to visit each node
once, you clearly need the ability to remember what you found, and STX is
therefore stateful.

[1] http://stx.sourceforge.net/

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

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