[xquery-talk] Comparing XQuery to XSLT

[rick schochler]

interesting...I was just taking a look at your photo
album and will take a look at your article.

So, I suppose the next question is, given that you
could do the exact same thing using xslt, do you have
a preference?

Rick
--- Per Bothner <per at bothner.com> wrote:
> rick schochler wrote:
> 
> > As far as transformations, I too see quite a bit
> of
> > overlap. I suppose this will take some time to get
> > sorted out. One thing I'll point out (with the
> full
> > knowledge that someone will most likely show me
> that
> > it can, in fact, be done) is that I don't see an
> > obvious way to do 1 to n transformations using
> xquery.
> 
> The Qexo implementation has a "write-to(DATA, URL)"
> function
> to write extra output files.  I use this for the
> "picture
> album" application I mentioned in the previous
> message:
> All of the linked web pages are generated by a
> single
> XQuery "run".  My XML.com article discuss the
> alternatives.
> 
> Of course write-to, in addition to being
> non-standard,
> is awkward semantically because it is a side-effect
> in
> an otherwise side-efefct-free language.  In
> practice,
> that may not be a problem, but it would complicate
> any
> attempt to formally define XQuery.  The same problem
> is also likely for any attempt to add updates to
> XQuery.
> -- 
> 	--Per Bothner
> per at bothner.com   http://per.bothner.com/
> 
>