> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Welch [mailto:]
> Sent: December 2, 2008 5:03 AM
> To: Rick Jelliffe
> Cc: Mukul Gandhi; Costello, Roger L.;
> Subject: Re: [xml-dev] Feasibility of "do all application
> coding in the XML languages"?
>
> > Second, on the specific case of XSLT, XSLT is very often used when
> > there is XML-in and XML-out (or HTML out of course). Where that is
> > not the case, XSLT loses a lot of its perceived value.
While it requires lower-level programming, XSLT can be used on
non-XML , non-text inputs. I wanted to get GIS programmers interested
in XSLT, and they all seem to hate XML. So I wrote a parser for
an industry-standard binary file format called "shapefile", allowing
XSLT (saxon in my case) programmers to directly operate on the
format.
I am working on a serializer that will allow XSLT programs to
output the result as shapefiles, hopefully that will get a few people
started.
I think there's a lot of value in such interfaces. It would be nice
if it didn't involve having to write a parser each time, but the cost
is not too high, I think
Cheers,
Peter Rushforth
