What do you use in your applications for transforming XML data to other data types? WHY?
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What do you use in your applications for transforming XML data to other data types? WHY?
While XQuery can be used for simple transformations, it lacks the power and sofistication of XSLT (especially templates and the
<xsl:apply-templates>instruction).XSLT is a language that was especially designed to process tree structures. It is still best at doing this.
In cases when accessing an XML database it would be a good decision to use (the efficiency of) XQuery to extract the necessary XML nodes and then do the transformation with XSLT from here on. Some XSLT 2.x / XQuery processors do allow this (via extensions) even now. The next wave of XSLT 2.x/XQuery 1.x specifications will most probably make such interoperability an official feature of these languages.