Re: XSLT vs Perl

On Tue, Feb 03, 2004 at 04:43:38PM -0500, Adam Turoff wrote:
> > Therefore, if people preferred XSLT 1.0 over other languages when
> > performing these tasks, despite its shortcomings, they will certainly
> > prefer XSLT 2.0 over other languages.
> 
> Actually, the way XSLT 2.0 is going, I'd much prefer XSLT 1.1 or 1.5:
> add the grouping and date handling, remove the nodeset/rtf distinction,
> and fix a couple of other warts in XSLT 1.0.  *That* would be a killer
> language.

+1

> The situations that demand input/output validation and XQuery
> integration are totally separate domains.  That greatly complicates 
> XSLT 2.0, and obscures the fact that part of XSLT 2.0 is 
> XSLT 1.0 - warts + fixes.

+1

Hell, plus +100.

Michael

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