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Re: XSLT vs Omnimark
James Robertson writes:
> Well, from where I stand:
>
> * XSLT is becomming pretty common, so many
> people understand it.
>
> * Omnimark is much more powerful, and extensible.
since both are extensible, hard to see how one can be more powerful
than the other....
> * Omnimark has regular expressions, which are vital
> for almost all real-world work. It also has
> much cleaner handling of multiple files, data
> structures, etc.
I think I might disagree there. the fact that XSLT forces you to use
XML as your data structure for *everything* is a good clean thing
> * Both have strange, bizzare syntaxes.
the syntax of XSLT is XML. bizarre semantics, maybe, but the syntax is
a doddle
> * Both are free.
but only one has multiple implementations
> * Omnimark can easily handle 100+ meg documents
> without requiring unreasonable amounts of RAM.
and can it _sort_ that 100 megabyte document?
sebastian
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