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Subject: Re: alternatives to XSL (was RE: Microsoft extensions)
From: Paul Prescod <papresco@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 23:31:32 -0600
pygrove
Didier PH Martin wrote:
> 
> Hi Paul
> 
> you said:
> I don't think of Omnimark as high-level. I think of it as ultra low-level.
> It is focused on the nuts and bolts of the text.
> 
> Can you briefly describe what you mean by "low level and focused on the
> text". Is it lower level than XSL and if yes why. We can learn from your
> explanations.

Omnimark is about string processing. It is very good at matching strings
that are SGML tags and so forth, but the basic model is the same as
working through an RTF string or a comma delimited file string. When I
work with XML, I want to think of it as just a serialization for a *tree*.
It's the tree that I want to work with in my code. Omnimark is low-level
in that it works with the string and not the abstraction it represents.
Python+PyDOM or Python+PyGrove, on the other hand, is about working with
the tree, which is what you are probably interested in.

http://www.python.org/topics/xml/

Of course, you can also use Python+PySAX, which is somewhere in between
Omnimark and PyGrove, but even there you have a rich toolbox of data types
and functions. Omnimark's types and functions are not as rich.

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

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