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At 9:08 AM -0700 3/30/04, M. David Peterson wrote:
Absolutely. Consider Jaxen or any of the other XPath APIs to non-functional languages. Or consider XSLT + the non-functional extensions some vendors provide. There's nothing in XPath that requires it to be implemented only in a functional language.
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RE: [xsl] XPath is NOT a functional language
Subject: RE: [xsl] XPath is NOT a functional language From: Elliotte Rusty Harold <elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 30 Mar 2004 11:48:15 -0500 |
At 9:08 AM -0700 3/30/04, M. David Peterson wrote:
I don't know of any other technology that is using XPath at the core of its functionality. Therefore I don't know if this argument is true for every instance of XPath implementation. Anyone know of another implementation that would not be considered a functional language?
Absolutely. Consider Jaxen or any of the other XPath APIs to non-functional languages. Or consider XSLT + the non-functional extensions some vendors provide. There's nothing in XPath that requires it to be implemented only in a functional language.
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Elliotte Rusty Harold elharo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Effective XML (Addison-Wesley, 2003) http://www.cafeconleche.org/books/effectivexml http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ISBN%3D0321150406/ref%3Dnosim/cafeaulaitA
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