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> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrew Welch [mailto:andrew.j.welch@g...] > Sent: December 2, 2008 5:03 AM > To: Rick Jelliffe > Cc: Mukul Gandhi; Costello, Roger L.; xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Feasibility of "do all application > coding in the XML languages"? > > > Second, on the specific case of XSLT, XSLT is very often used when > > there is XML-in and XML-out (or HTML out of course). Where that is > > not the case, XSLT loses a lot of its perceived value. While it requires lower-level programming, XSLT can be used on non-XML , non-text inputs. I wanted to get GIS programmers interested in XSLT, and they all seem to hate XML. So I wrote a parser for an industry-standard binary file format called "shapefile", allowing XSLT (saxon in my case) programmers to directly operate on the format. I am working on a serializer that will allow XSLT programs to output the result as shapefiles, hopefully that will get a few people started. I think there's a lot of value in such interfaces. It would be nice if it didn't involve having to write a parser each time, but the cost is not too high, I think Cheers, Peter Rushforth
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