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RE: turing complete?
- To: mhkay at iclway dot co dot uk
- Subject: [xsl] RE: turing complete?
- From: Dimitre Novatchev <dnovatchev at yahoo dot com>
- Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 10:39:55 -0700 (PDT)
- Cc: xsl-list at lists dot mulberrytech dot com
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> It also means that anyone who tells you that they are using Javascript
> because "XSLT cannot do xxx" is wrong (though they might be correct if they
> argued instead that "XSLT can't do xxx easily/efficiently).
I guess that there are some xxx things that can be done using Javascript and the
DOM, and that cannot be done in XSLT.
Not even thinking about Turing-completeness we should first be aware that XSLT has
***limited*** access to certain kinds of data. This affects what can be done with
XSLT, even though it is Turing-complete.
There are examples (including some in your book) of processing, which cannot be done
in "pure" XSLT due to the limited access to information -- the XML - Infoset model.
This is certainly a minor, but necessary correction.
Dimitre Novatchev.
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