Re: Practicality of Separating Data from Presentation

+1 to that !

I am now hitting performance walls with XSLT in many situations, not to
mention that there are serious problems with  doing simple RDBMS thingies,
i''ll be the first in line to implement commercial XQuery solutions, when
they cheapen and flourish, of which they are not at the moment.

cheers, jim





----- Original Message -----
From: "J.Pietschmann" <j3322ptm@xxxxxxxx>
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Monday, July 01, 2002 9:05 PM
Subject: Re:  Practicality of Separating Data from Presentation


> James Fuller wrote:
> > you will find that there are people out there that *gasp* hate XSLT for
many
> > reasons;
> > - XQuery people think its a bit wimpy in real data situations, true but
its
> > simplicity means it gets adopted, even people who use XML have some
problems
> > with XSLT. The fact remains that XSLT solves most of XQueries use cases.
>
> Even better: Use a highly optimized XQuery engine to
> query the terabyte data pool and produce XML, then
> use XSLT to transform the query result into the
> desired presentation. Concerns separated, everybody
> is happy. No need for extremists, on either side.
>
> J.Pietschmann
>
>
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