Hi Torbjörn,
On Die, 10 Okt 2000, you wrote:
> I agree that standards must be set. I would be happy to participate in this
> work.
This would be great. Any help is really appreciated. So please join the XUpdate
mailing list and you might be interested to review the list archives at
http://archive.xmldb.org
> My first thought is: Must something be developed? We already have powerful
> tools in XSLT. Perhaps an xsl-transform with default rule:
> <xsl:template match="* | @* | text() | comment() etc..">
> <xsl:copy>
> <xsl:apply-templates select="* | @* | text() | comment() etc.."/>
> </xsl:copy>
> </xsl:template>
> can be usable as an update language? It probably has everything we need and
> is an existing standard that should be familiar to anyone working with xml.
> As an aside, perhaps full XSL is a good query-language, allowing great
> flexibility of choice in formatting the output of a query (The default rule
> when querying would of course be to just apply templates of all sub-units
> without giving output).
You are right, XSLT is a wonderfull approach but consider the following facts:
1. XSLT is separated between an input document and an output document
so it would be very hard to "implement" a sequence of update commands
which operates on results of previous operations
2. XSLT is not a very intuitive and descriptive update language like SQL
I'll CC this mail to the XUpdate mailing list because your questions are related
to this mailing list.
Regards,
Lars
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