RE: LINQ to XML versus XSLT

> From: Michael Ludwig [mailto:mlu@xxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Friday, June 27, 2008 11:58 AM
> To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re:  LINQ to XML versus XSLT
>
> Colin Paul Adams schrieb:
> >>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Trenda <Scott.Trenda@xxxxxxxx> writes:
> >
> >     Scott> My reply is getting a little off-topic, but on the same
> >     Scott> note, why haven't we seen a widely-used XML-based HTML
> >     Scott> preprocessor language yet?
> >
> > Pre-processors are just bad. (If you mean macro processors, that is.
> > If you mean transformation languages, such as XSLT, then you have the
> > answer to your own question.)
>
> PHP, which stands for "Pretty Home Page", was surnamed "PHP HTML
> Preprocessor" (a so-called recursive acronym, like GNU) when it was a
> couple of years old, obviously in an effort to give it a more serious
> appeal.
>
> I thank that's what Scott was referring to, not macro processors.
>
> As for XSLT in that role, it doesn't do SQL and send mail.

Actually, there is nothing stoping XSLT from doing either SQL or mail.  As a
matter of fact Saxon has had SQL extension functions for quite some time and I
have been using them quite frequently to load and extract information from SQL
databases.


Andy.