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RE: Feasibility of "do all application coding in the XML langu

• From: "Michael Kay" <mike@s...>
• To: "'Simon St.Laurent'" <simonstl@s...>,"'Costello, Roger L.'" <costello@m...>
• Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2008 15:58:19 -0000

> > I am exploring the idea of "do all application coding in 
> the XML languages."
> 
> Basic question: why?

Writing your application in a single language, if you can do it, will always
give you a substantial reduction in complexity versus using multiple
languages.

And writing in a language that is well adapted to the data it is required to
process will save you a lot of effort (human and machine effort) in doing
data conversion.

> But again, why would anyone sane want to do all of their 
> application coding in specifically XML-oriented languages?

If all the inputs and outputs of the application are in XML, and if the
processing is within the capabilities of those languages, then why would you
want to do anything else?

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

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