Re: [xml-dev] To avoid confinement to a niche, handle a diversityof data

[Shlomi Fish <shlomif@shlomifish.org>]

On Sun, 17 Apr 2022 13:54:26 +0000
Roger L Costello <costello@mitre.org> 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
> 

Hi.

I've written about similar issues here:

* https://www.shlomifish.org/meta/FAQ/why_xml.xhtml

* https://www.shlomifish.org/philosophy/computers/web/choice-of-docs-formats/

	-- Shlomi

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