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At 07:55 4/03/2000 , Vincent Bernat wrote:
I don't know if some of you know Omnimark. It is a streaming programming language and it works like XSLT but allows to include programming instructions and can react to many more events (others than tags). I want to make use of one of this technology to process an XML file. Do someone know some pros and cons of both "products" to help me to make a choice ? Well, from where I stand: * XSLT is becomming pretty common, so many people understand it. * Omnimark is much more powerful, and extensible. * Omnimark has regular expressions, which are vital for almost all real-world work. It also has much cleaner handling of multiple files, data structures, etc. * Both have strange, bizzare syntaxes. * Both are free. * XSLT has better support for XML (Omnimark is primarily an SGML tool). Omnimark is improving in this area, though. * Omnimark primarily works on valid documents (ie the ones with DTDs). XSLT works well on well-formed documents as well as valid ones. * Both can be extended using external functions, in a variety of languages. * Omnimark is streaming, and very fast. It doesn't require 40meg of ram for a 50kb document (see earlier message re: XSLT). * Omnimark can easily handle 100+ meg documents without requiring unreasonable amounts of RAM. Personally, I use Omnimark, because I want to get the job done with a minimum of hassle. And simple user requirements get steadily more complex as time goes on, so I want a tool that has plenty of power, and few limitations. I would recommend trying both. Your biggest problem is that both tools have a steep learning curve. Cheers, J ------------------------- James Robertson Step Two Designs Pty Ltd SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy Illumination: an out-of-the-box Intranet solution http://www.steptwo.com.au/ jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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