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On Thu, 2003-07-03 at 10:02, Claudio Russo wrote: > Do you think it's so powerful per se to put at a side languages like Java, > VB, C++ or Cobol for Data Management, when most of the current data > architectures are RDB or VSAM? I think it has a different place than replace. XSLT is XML just as a Java Class is java (bytecoded of course). You can use java classes in C++ but it isn't exactly natural - a term used quite a bit on the list ;-). If I had need to manipulate a Java class I would likely choose the Java programming language to do so. If I needed to get access to relational database information, I would probably choose SQL. > Don't you think it should be better considered as a next step processing > for presentation purposes? I think that is a use for XSLT, yes. I do not think it is the only, or most powerful use of the language though. If you take XML and transform it into HTML, you are using it for presentation proposes - yet you are still simply changing the XML data into something else (html). If you instead have the same XML transform into SQL statements, then run the statements against a database - there is no presentation, but I think that is a quite natural place for XSLT. To me, considering it *only* for "step processing for presentation purposes" is like saying plain text files can only be used to write documents. Cheers, Rob -- Rob Rohan <me@xxxxxxxxxxxx> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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