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To state the obvious, XSLT (or XSLScript) would be a swell precursor to XPathScript in a typical web-based system, so these do not need to be enemies. But the bifurcation discussion is interesting. Speaking of, is there even a general agreement on what "declarative" and "procedural" mean in this context? The descision to put a tool in one bucket or the other seems to be dangerously close to subjective and could lead to disagreements based simply on the reasons people chose for their categorization. > -----Original Message----- > From: Tim Bray [mailto:tbray@t...] > Sent: Saturday, November 04, 2000 10:33 AM > To: Matt Sergeant; Mike.Champion@S... > Cc: xml-dev@l... > Subject: Re: Procedural vs Declarative XML transformation approaches > > > At 06:05 PM 04/11/00 +0000, Matt Sergeant wrote: > > Basically, procedural > >code is great for data oriented XML structures, but almost > useless for XML > >mixed content. For mixed content you really need declarative code. > > Wow; a neat bifurcation of the universe. I wish life were that > simple. Suffice it to say that many will disagree with this > particular pair of broad brush strokes. -Tim >
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