Re: XSLT vs Perl

I've never liked the pointy brackets aspect of XSLT - far too heavy on the
eyes. OTOH, once written, stylesheets stay written with very little need
for maintenance - largely to do, I suspect, with the scoping of the
application domain of XSLT.

To me, the XSLT 2.0 spec adds some well-needed functionality - like regexp
- which seemed "obviously needed" in XSLT 1.0 to me once I'd gotten my head
around style sheets.

Roger.



                                                                                                                                                
                      David Tolpin                                                                                                              
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>
> The most obvious diff is that XSLT has tags but Python/Perl hasn't. I
> suspect if you tried to write a SCCM system in XSLT, I wouldn't rate yr
> chances for understandability, or even of surviving very long as a sane
> person.
>

I asked you the wrong thing. Now, why is having tags advantageous?

What are the tasks for which XSLT 2.0 provides better layer separation,
more clear syntax, faster completion, better code maintainence?

For XSLT 1.0 the theory (at least) is that it is simple enough
to be efficient in implementing algorithms it is used to specify.
It has very few things it should not; and as soon as the scope
is narrowed, it is the best tool.

XSLT 2.0 is awk with pointy brackets. What's the advantage of
having pointy brackets in awk?

David Tolpin
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