Re: Xpath

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On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 22:31 +0100, Jenda Krynicky wrote:
> From: Tim Brody <[email protected]>

> And before someone starts to babble about the need to stop thinking=20
> proceduraly, because XSLT is functional ... I've worked with=20
> functional languages. With lazy, purely functional languages to be=20
> exact. The problem doesn't lie in XSLTs purported functionality. It=20
> lies in its braindead syntax.

I've never struggled with that, but then I use an editor (vim) that
highlights <xsl:> tags.

<xhtml:em><xsl:value-of select=3D"/foo" /></xhtml:em>

vs.

my $foo =3D $dom->documentElement->findnodes("/foo")[0];
my $em =3D $dom->createElementNS( "http://w3.org/???", "em" );
$frag->appendChild($em);
$em->appendChild($foo->textContent());

I've written plenty of both, but in my experience writing a bit of XSLT
can save me from writing a lot of XML bootstrap code in a procedural
language.

Everyone has their preferred tools. If you have a better approach for
processing XML please share.

/Tim.

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