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0 pointsranger_danger1y ago0 comments

You can write scripts to transform XML documents as well.

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True, but I don't want to. And that is the biggest barrier of all.

I was going to say what GP said, but, yeah, XSLT is just no fun to write by comparison to SQL.

Hardly anybody was using XSLT even when XML was all the rage. Python scripts work just fine.

XQuery is easier and can be fun to use!

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True, but I don't want to. And that is the biggest barrier of all.

I was going to say what GP said, but, yeah, XSLT is just no fun to write by comparison to SQL.

Hardly anybody was using XSLT even when XML was all the rage. Python scripts work just fine.

XQuery is easier and can be fun to use!

j / k navigate · click thread line to collapse