Re: To avoid confinement to a niche, handle a diversity of data formats

Well yeah. I mean it's common sense innit. But the JSON folk don't believe
in that.

On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:54 AM Roger L Costello <[email protected]> wrote:

> "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
>
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