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Subject: Re: XSLT vs Omnimark From: Rick Geimer <Rick.Geimer@xxxxxxx> Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2000 14:36:32 -0800 |
I use both, but I tend to stick with OmniMark for anything complex. Here are some pros and cons as I see them: OmniMark Pros: Built in regular expression language Support for DTDs Complete control over the output Support for SGML as well as XML Fast OmniMark Cons: Proprietary language Ignores some wellformedness errors in XML that are legal in SGML Will probably never be implementable on the client side (i.e. in a browser) Syntax can be a little confusing to newcomers XSLT Pros: Random access to the entire tree Non-proprietary language with many evolving implementations Implementations are appearing on both the client and server side XSLT Cons: No regular expressions Current implementations tend to be a little slow (this is improving, though) No support for DTDs Variables that don't vary - (I know this is by design, but it is a pain sometimes) Syntax can be a little confusing to newcomers Basically, I like XSLT for the most part, it allows me to do 95% of what I need to do fairly easily, but trying to accomplish that last 5% of a complex job is a real pain, or in some cases virtually impossible. This is probably because the focus of XSLT doesn't meet my needs. XSLT is a tree transformation tool, and it is very good at what it does, but if you need to do more than just move nodes around, you would be better off looking elsewhere at this time. This is just off the top of my head, and is only my opinion, so don't flame me if you disagree :-). Rick Geimer National Semiconductor rick.geimer@xxxxxxx Vincent Bernat wrote: > > I don't know if some of you know Omnimark. It is a streaming > programming language and it works like XSLT but allows to include > programming instructions and can react to many more events (others than > tags). > I want to make use of one of this technology to process an XML file. Do > someone know some pros and cons of both "products" to help me to make a > choice ? > > Regards, > > XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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