To avoid confinement to a niche, handle a diversity of data formats
Roger L Costello <[email protected]>
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"the web is a heterogeneous place, and any technology that fails to handle a diversity of data formats is by definition confined to a niche." [What about XSLT, can it handle a diversity of data formats?] "XSLT 2.0 added significant capabilities to transform text (using regular expressions); the EXPath initiative has added function libraries to process binary data; and the support for JSON in XSLT 3.0 continues this trend. XSLT will always be primarily a language for transforming XML, but to do this job well it needs to be capable of doing other things as well." [I.e., XSLT can process these data formats: XML, text, binary, JSON. That's a pretty good collection of data formats.] -- Michael Kay, last paragraph of section 1 in https://www.saxonica.com/papers/xmlprague-2016mhk.pdf _______________________________________________________________________ XML-DEV is a publicly archived, unmoderated list hosted by OASIS to support XML implementation and development. To minimize spam in the archives, you must subscribe before posting. [Un]Subscribe/change address: http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/ Or unsubscribe: [email protected] subscribe: [email protected] List archive: http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ List Guidelines: http://www.oasis-open.org/maillists/guidelines.php