Re: Xpath
Liam R E Quin <[email protected]> Fri, 14 Dec 2012 17:30:56 -0500
| Newsgroups | gmane.comp.lang.perl.xml |
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| Organization | W3C - World Wide Web Consortium |
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On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 22:31 +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> The problem doesn't lie in XSLTs purported functionality. It
> lies in its braindead syntax.
There exist people who are comfortable with XML.
Those who prefer
for $i in collection("biography-database")/person[@born lt 1800]
return $person/name
can use XQuery instead :-)
There are Perl bindings for several XQuery implementations.
Liam
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