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Fw: Re: XSLT & SQL


One advantage may be that SQL may perform the job faster than XSLT.

Thanks to all who responded to my query and gave me some points to consider
and discuss.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anthony B. Coates" <abcwww@xmljava.fsnet.co.uk>
To: "E L" <pappis3d@softhome.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 2:08 PM
Subject: Re: Re: [xsl] XSLT & SQL


> > Presumably, a tool will be written to take any XSLT script and generate
the
> > equivalent insert SQL statement together with the table definitions (for
now
> > assume input and output are XML and the schemas for them will also be
input
> > to the tool).
>
> Not necessarily.  We are likely to see native XQuery implementations in
the short to medium future, and those would make such a tool largely
irrevelant.  There is no great advantage to using SQL unless the XML
information you have really is tabular, and really benefits from the
relational model (e.g. if it is very cross-linked).  This is often not the
case, and XSLT engines do what they do quite well enough for most purposes.
>
>     Cheers,
>         Tony.
>
> ========
> Anthony B. Coates
> Financial XML Specialist
> mailto:abcoates@TheOffice.net
>
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