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Murali Mani wrote:
> Hello, I did not know people did not like XPath expressions. can you tell
> me some important reasons why. I will argue why I like Xpath expressions..
Not that I disagree with you (I like XPath well enough), but you did
ask:
"XPaths are essentially untyped keys into a document structure. In
Java or C#, using them circumvents the langauge's inbuilt type
system making code harder to read and debug. We would do better to
represent that structure as actual objects in the language, thus
utilizing the language's inbuilt dispatch and type systems rather
than reinventing (probably badly) our own frameworks. Leveraging the
language will lead to more comprehensible and robust code which
correlates directly to business value, something not guaranteed when
developers are spending unneccesary time writing plumbing instead of
applications."
Then again, if Adam Bosworth was concerned about not using SQL
strings inside Java, would we object?
Bill de hÓra
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