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On Thu, 6 Jul 2000, Kay Michael wrote: > > XSLT is a declarative language, not a functional language. Think SQL. > > I think that's open to debate. XPath is certainly declarative, and the > pattern-matching template rules of XSLT could also be described as > declarative, but the call-template mechanism and the way variables and > parameters work has a strong "functional" feel to it, even though the > inability to manipulate functions as values means that it's not a > fully-fledged functional programming language. > > Incidentally, while the SELECT statement in SQL is declarative, procedures > in SQL are rather heavily procedural. Again, think about how extension functions are equivalent to stored procedures, and maybe even named templates equivalent to views (though that's stretching the analogy a bit). -- <Matt/> Fastnet Software Ltd. High Performance Web Specialists Providing mod_perl, XML, Sybase and Oracle solutions Email for training and consultancy availability. http://sergeant.org | AxKit: http://axkit.org XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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