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Re: XSL as a Programming Language
At 15:41 20/07/2000, Paul Tchistopolskii wrote:
>Perl is almost useless without the extensions written in C.
Now that's what I call flamebait!
Are you sure you really mean this Paul?
>Semantics of XSLT constructions is powerful enough +
>XSLT has one serious advantage comparing to other
>'traditional' languages - it is a first nice mix of dataflow
>with processing code. Maybe there are / were better
>attempts - I don't know.
I would vote for Omnimark,
as a user of it.
XSLT isn't worth a pile of beans without
regular expressions, even if it has a lot
of nice "structural" functionality.
J
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