Re: [xml-dev] The limits of XML mean the limits of my data world

[Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>]

Lots of people have invented non-XML syntaxes for XSLT; they have all died a quiet death without achieving any signfiicant adoption.

I think there are a number of reasons:

(a) the use of XML syntax is off-putting to beginners but no problem at all to experienced users

(b) using a preprocessor makes development a lot more complicated - diagnostics are less helpful, and helpful diagnostics are much more important to developers than pretty syntax.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

> On 30 May 2022, at 08:45, Marcus Reichardt <u123724@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Begging (raising) the question why XSLT does have to be in XML syntax,
> and why nobody has bothered to invent an alternative non-XML syntax.
> AFAICS, the only rationale of XSLT being XML itself can be that XML
> literals can be used with ease.