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Re: [xsl] XQuery Updates in XSLT

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On Oct 29, 2008, at 5:19 PM, Andrew Welch wrote:

Yes. It's a few lines of easily readable XQuery Update, versus a few
complete XSLT templates and an explanation of how the identity transform
works.

XQuery Update solution:

[snip]

XSLT 2.0 solution:

[snip]

So, what is the prize for the "best" solution?  (separate prize for
defining "best" that everyone agrees on)

This is already an old argument... those who use XQuery day in day out
prefer the XQuery solution, those who use XSLT will prefer that (but
if you're modifying a file in an XML database you'd use XQuery, if
you're using the filesystem, probably XSLT).  So it doesn't really
matter.

There it is. The only reason I would want to use XQuery is because it allows you to work against an entire XML DB and not have to load everything into memory. If XSL could work against an XML DB, I would never use XQuery -- I don't see the advantage.

BTW, someone started work on integrating XSL into the eXist XML DB:

https://smartims.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/smartims/branches/xslt/

-Rob

(btw, it's funny that you think an explanation of the identity
template is needed, but not XQuery update syntax?  Neither are exactly
intuitive...! )

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Andrew Welch
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