Isn't what you described already in some type of existence with the
W3C SPARQL idea ...
http://www.w3.org/2001/sw/DataAccess/
Or do you have an opinion on it?
- Jon
On Aug 7, 2007, at 5:15 PM, Elliotte Rusty Harold wrote:
David Krings wrote:
Hans Zaunere wrote:
Agreed - I'm still waiting for XSLT to take us by storm. And I
keep that
Javascript turned off in my browser, since no web site should
depend on it
being available... right?
Both true. XSLT is indeed an awesome technology. The reason why it
doesn't catch on is that XML and XSLT is designed for machines to
read and not for humans. Just see how difficult it is for many to
create proper HTML!
There may not be a lot of XSLT on the web yet, but there's more
than you'd think; especially if you get to look behind the
curtains. Many more sites are using it internally than are exposing
it publicly.
And in some fields such as publishing XSLT has been an absolute
godsend. It's much less heralded than PHP or Rails, but to me it's
a far more powerful and productive language for the uses for which
it's intended. That is, XSLT improves my productivity when doing
XMLish things more than PHP improves my productivity when doing
Webish things. I'm not saying XSLT is a general purpose web
development language like PHP. It's definitely true that the use
cases for XSLT are somewhat more specialized than the use cases for
PHP. I.e. more people want to do webby things than XML things.
Of course, if you really want to rock, try combining XQuery+XQueryP
+APP+a native XML database. Once the tooling matures a bit, that's
a stack that's going to make all previous web dev frameworks look
like PowerBuilder. Hmm, need a good acronym for that one: LAXQE
perhaps? (Linux+Atom Publishing Protocol+XQuery+eXist) Have to work
on that a bit. :-)
--
Elliotte Rusty Harold
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