Re: is XPath 3.1 xml-to-json() function useful

Hi Wendell,

On Thu, Mar 14, 2019 at 1:58 AM Wendell Piez wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <
xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I think good tools (like oXygen in this case) do make it
> possible to be much more ambitious with XSLT, if only because they
> make it possible to visualize, represent and manage more complex
> processes, such (in this case for example) as 2-stage or multi-stage
> pipelines producing specialized serialization formats including JSON.
>

I agree. Very well articulated.


> Aren't we saying
> that good tools make difficult things easier, if you know how to use
> them?


Definitely.


> I do wonder who you have in mind when you talk about the
> "average developer" as mostly, she or he would not be writing XSLT,
> would they?
>

The phrase "average developer", I wrote was a bit casual. I probably meant
average XSLT developer.




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Mukul Gandhi