RE: Xquery for 'hard data probs' was RE: XSLT vs Perl

> [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Kurt Cagle
> Sent: 21 February 2004 08:18
> Subject: Re: Xquery for 'hard data probs' was RE:  XSLT vs Perl

> I have written two books on, or partially on, XQuery, in the 
> last year. My take on it is that in order to do anything of 
> interest, you need to know XPath to a fairly solid degree. By 
> the time you get there, XSLT is more expressive and capable 
> than XQuery.

So we have one author on the subject of XQuery stating outright that
XSLT is more capable and another respected author stating that XSLT is
superior over XQuery in situations of manipulating in memory xml. 

Hmmm, perhaps it will ultimately be performance characteristics that
become the main reason to use Xquery over XSLT.

Many thx for anyone's comments on this.

Regards, Jim Fuller





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