Re: Language choice (was: Re: Interactive XML)

Michael Kay wrote:
> 
> And that is an even sadder joke. XML was designed for
> marking-up documents, not for defining the syntax of
> programming languages (even declarative ones).
> 
> Give me F(X) rather than
> <FUNCTION><NAME>F</NAME><ARGUMENT>X</ARGUMENT></FUNCTION>
> any day of the week.

Although XSL has a programming language component, it is not primarily a
programming language. If it were, it would be just a variant of
ECMAScript, but clearly it is much more than that. XSL is primarily a
stylesheet language, and XML seems to do a good job of expressing the
declarative parts of that language.

 Paul Prescod  - http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco

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