Re: [xml-dev] Streaming XML (WAS: More on taming SAX (was Re: [xml-dev] ANN: Amara XML Toolkit 0.9.0))

* Daniela Florescu <> [2004-12-27 18:55]:

> >When you write XSLT, why is that not "hand-coded"?
> 
> It's assembler-level "hand coding" vs. SQL-level "hand coding".
> Sure, you can see both as "hand coding" if you want...
> 
> But do I really have to explain myself any further ?

    Java is not assembler. XSLT can be mind-boggling complex.

    It is function programming, which is a leap. It isn't the
    easiest way to learn functional programming either.

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