Article:		Processing RSS
Subject:		XQuery and XSLT
Date:		2003-04-19 13:13:25
From:		Oleg Tkachenko
Response to: XQuery and XSLT
Come on, XSLT is not a "special-purpose scripting language", it's turing complete functional language, look at FXSL library as a prominent example. And XSLT is designed to allow compiation, that's why xsl:include cannot be dynamic and there is no dynamic XPath evaluatuion even in XSLT2. Moreover, *all* XSLT processors I'm aware do compile XSLT stylesheets and do optimize from //* stuff to tail recursion, that's all pretty possible even in XSLT1.0. XQuery and XSLT2 really look extremelly similar, except for syntax, but does syntax matter? "XQuery is XSLT with no templates" (c)Jeni Tennison probably.

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  2003-04-21 19:24:20 Per Bothner