On Wednesday 12 June 2002 4:09 am, Rob Nagler wrote: > Matt Sergeant writes: > > There's quite a few things that are a lot harder to do with XML in > > plain perl (especially in SAX) than they are in XSLT. > > This assumes you need XML in the first place.
No, it does not. The rest of my post spoke about XML as a data format and set of tools, not as a syntax. Please stop thinking about XML as syntax!! > It's trivial to manipulate Perl data structures in Perl. It's > also easy to manipulate XML in Perl. However, it's impossible(?) to > manipulate Perl data structures in XSLT. You seem to speak as someone who has never tried by the sounds of things. This is one of the things AxKit's XSP taglibs are designed to provide for. Matt.
