> From owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx  Wed Feb  4 03:12:24 2004
> From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx>
> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: RE:  XSLT vs Perl
> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 22:54:44 -0000
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> > Are you interested in implementation details?
> > 
> No, but I'm interested in the syntax and semantics of the language.
>

Any good book on Perl describes the language in detail. The
syntax used above is from a real module. A popular book 
describing Perl is ISBN: 1-56592-149-6, Programming Perl by Wall,
Christiansen and Schwartz. 

Again, I am not a proponent of Perl. That was just to show that
perl does XML transformation staff - with just appropriate library
modules - just as well as XSLT, but may be with less sharpness
than XSLT 1.0 and without reflection (stylesheets can be transformed
with XSLT 1.0, perl programs cannot); and it does the rest 
better than XSLT 2.0.

David Tolpin
http://davidashen.net/



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