Re: [Exist-development] New list member offering services :)

[Adam R. <ad...@ex...>]

> I think the second statement is true.  XQuery is perfect for quickly getting
> the titles from a large collection of indexed XML documents.   But the first
> is somewhat debatable.

I would argue that XSLT is much better suited to transformations than
XQuery. I think both XSLT and XQuery have their place and should be
used when appropriate like any tool. They both have their strengths
and weaknesses and together they are an excellent package.

> My experience is that I can teach people how to do
> an XQuery typeswitch tranforms in about an hour or two.  Most people prefer
> the syntax of XQuery over XSLT.

In my experience the opposite is true, it is much easier to teach some
basic XSLT than XQuery, the templating approach is very natural and
non-programmer types feel much safer writting XSLT as an XML
vocabulary than they do XQuery code. I would also argue that IDE's
with the Schema for XSLT make it much easier to see problems in the
code as you are writting in than with XQuery.




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