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On Thu, 2020-07-16 at 10:28 +0000, Dr. Roger L Costello costello@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Liam wrote this really interesting paragraph: > > > The benefit to using maps or arrays over > > elements in XSLT or XQuery is that element > > nodes are too heavyweight, and too prone > > to turning their content back into strings. > > In XQuery in particular, constructors by > > default do a terrible and dismal thing: > > <x>3</x> makes a text node inside an x > > element. And XDM element nodes have > > a ton of properties, such as next, previous, > > parent, schema type, is_happy, none of > > which are needed for a matrix of numbers. > > Yikes! Isn't that an argument against using XML and XSLT? No - but use the best tool for the job at hand. > > /Roger > > -- Liam Quin, https://www.delightfulcomputing.com/ Available for XML/Document/Information Architecture/XSLT/ XSL/XQuery/Web/Text Processing/A11Y training, work & consulting. Barefoot Web-slave, antique illustrations: http://www.fromoldbooks.org
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