Re: About o:XML

On Mon, Apr 18, 2005 at 03:58:56PM -0000, Ashwin Jayaprakash wrote:
> Hi guys,
> I have a simple question regarding your project. I've been following such "executable XML" libraries for sometime now. But recently, XQuery has picked up a lot of momentum. I'd appreciate it if you could explain to me how projects such as yours or Jelly etc are different from XQuery or where one would use o:XML and not XQuery. I still don't know why one would want to write a program in XML and not in simple English-like languages like Java/C.
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I'm not a developer on this project.
I see a couple advantages to an XML syntax language such as this:
- program mutability... XML parsers are well implemented.  Creating
  code that generates or modifies other code is simplified.
- clear syntax.. one thing I like about XSLt (and by extension, o:xml)
  is the explicit delimiters for code blocks.  To me:
    <xsl:if test="(expression)">
      (bunch 'o stuff)
    </xsl:if>
  is more clear than
    if ( (expression) ) {
      (bunch 'o stuff)
    }
  ... particularly when nested.
  This is more of a style preference though, not as compelling
  as the former reason.
- syntax error issues.  Many of what would normally be syntax
  errors determined by the compiler, can be picked up by verifying
  a program against an XSD schema document.  Probably makes it
  easier for those writing compilers?

-Brian Chrisman

> Thanks,
> Ashwin (www.JavaForU.com).
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