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Re: [BioRDF] XSLT or XQuery?

From: Duncan Hull <duncan.hull@cs.man.ac.uk>
Date: Wed, 01 Mar 2006 15:33:11 +0000
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Matthias Samwald wrote:

>XSLT definitly is not sufficient for such conversions, I agree. XQuery, however, is much more powerful than XSLT and has most features of a 'full blown programming language'.
>

If you're trying to decide between XSLT and XQuery to perform some task, 
this paper by Michael Kay is a good read.
http://www.idealliance.org/proceedings/xtech05/papers/02-03-01/

Duncan

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