Hi Michael,
Michael Kay <> writes:
> One other observation on this "benchmark":
>
> > Note how in the XQuery case I had to invent a delimiter (':')
> > for the first, last, and age fields so that I could pass them
> > as a string from XQuery to the programming language. I then
> > had to manually parse this string and convert the age field
> > to unsigned short. To me, this doesn't look easier than data
> > binding at all.
>
> The idea I'm pushing is that you write the application end-to-end using
> XML-based languages.
That only works if all your inputs and outputs are in XML. In most
real-world situations this won't be the case (I think by now people
realize that XML is not a silver bullet but merely a data format that
is ill-suited for many applications).
Boris
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Open source XML data binding for C++: http://codesynthesis.com/products/xsd
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