Subject: Re: [xsl] Replacing = with == and === From: "L2L 2L emanuelallen@xxxxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 5 Aug 2014 07:39:58 -0000 |
Yeah, but the long can be extended... It doesn't matter anymore. Xqib is dead. E-S4L > On Aug 5, 2014, at 2:48 AM, "Ihe Onwuka ihe.onwuka@xxxxxxxxx" <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > >> On Mon, Aug 4, 2014 at 12:11 PM, Michael Kay mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx <xsl-list-service@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > >> > Question: >> > >> > Why does it seem xslt is favorite over xQuery? >> > >> >> You might get different answers on a different list.... But I do think it's true that XSLT continues to have much wider usage than XQuery. >> >> I think the reason for that is primarily that people want to do transformation (which retains most of the information in a document, but in different form) rather than query (which extracts small amounts of information from a document). >> >> Although XQuery is capable of doing transformation, XSLT is better at it for two reasons: >> >> (a) the built-in rule-based processing model using template rules >> >> (b) the customization capability provided by xsl:import >> >> neither of which have any parallel in XQuery. >> >> XQuery is much better at doing complex joins, but that's not the kind of processing people are mostly doing. > > I like XSLT for outer joins and variants thereof using something that XQuery doesn't have xsl:key > > <xsl:key name="mykey" match="movie" use="@title"/> > <xsl:variable name="doc2" select="doc(doc2.xml)"/> > > <xsl:template match="movie[key('mykey',@title,$doc2)"/> > <xsl:template match="movie"> > ....process unmatched movies > </xsl:template> > > XSL-List info and archive > EasyUnsubscribe (by email)
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