Re: Xquery for 'hard data probs' was RE: XSLT vs Perl

I have written two books on, or partially on, XQuery, in the last year. My
take on it is that in order to do anything of interest, you need to know
XPath to a fairly solid degree. By the time you get there, XSLT is more
expressive and capable than XQuery.

-- Kurt

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, February 20, 2004 1:13 PM
Subject: RE: Xquery for 'hard data probs' was RE:  XSLT vs Perl


> > I would be interested in your opinion if Xquery is more
> > superior in querying data over XSLT, perhaps u have some
> > clear use cases gathered whilst developing your Xquery implementation.
>
> The strength of XQuery is that it is a simpler language than XSLT, which
> makes it much more feasible to implement efficient searching of very
> large XML databases.
>
> Its other strength is that for simple problems, the XQuery code is much
> shorter than the XSLT code.
>
> But for complex manipulation of in-memory XML, I would use XSLT every
> time, regardless of whether you're dealing with "data" problems or
> "document" problems.
>
> Michael Kay
>
>
>  XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
>
>


 XSL-List info and archive:  http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list