On 10/23/2012 10:02 AM, David Sewell wrote:
Speaking as someone who wrote a lot of pseudo-templates in XQuery
before MarkLogic added an XSLT 2.0 parser to their product, this is
one area where XSLT is a lot more pleasant to use, if that's a
possibility.
David
Hear, hear - we abandoned using xquery for transformations as well for
that reason.
When I was still struggling with that, I found myself trying to write a
pattern-matching system (basically something like xslt implemented in
xquery), but it was too difficult in XQuery 1.0.
Now I wonder whether something like this is feasible using xquery 3.0
features. Maybe not worth the effort, given the existence of xslt, but
at least you could imagine defining a map of XPath to function,
iterating over a tree, matching patterns and calling functions...
-Mike
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