Re: [xml-dev] To avoid confinement to a niche, handle a diversity of data formats
Well yeah. I mean it's common sense innit. But the JSON folk don't believe in that.
On Sun, Apr 17, 2022 at 9:54 AM Roger L Costello <[email protected]> wrote:
"the web is a heterogeneous place, and any technology that fails to handle a diversity of data formats is by definition confined to a niche."
[What about XSLT, can it handle a diversity of data formats?]
"XSLT 2.0 added significant capabilities to transform text (using regular expressions); the EXPath initiative has added function libraries to process binary data; and the support for JSON in XSLT 3.0 continues this trend. XSLT will always be primarily a language for transforming XML, but to do this job well it needs to be capable of doing other things as well."
[I.e., XSLT can process these data formats: XML, text, binary, JSON. That's a pretty good collection of data formats.]
-- Michael Kay, last paragraph of section 1 in https://www.saxonica.com/papers/xmlprague-2016mhk.pdf
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