Subject: RE: XQuery basics
From: "Michael Kay" <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2008 17:24:55 +0100
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> "Is XQuery like XSLT such that I have to build a little
> script that will copy everything from the source to the
> destination and make the change or add the attribute once I
> get to it?"
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> In that sense the two are different aren't they...? XSLT's
> recursive descent processing model makes it ideal for the
> task, while in XQuery you would pretty much require XQuery
> Update to do the same task.
Yes. XQuery tends to work better when you want to extract a small amount of
information from a large document and ignore the rest. XSLT tends to work
better if you want to keep most things the same and make a few small
changes. Of course there's a range of tasks between those extremes.
Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
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