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I miss the old days of working with XSLT and XPath. A nice way of giving some design touches and filtering/sorting to XML documents. It wasn't perfect but I wou
by melx 4y ago
I miss the old days of working with XSLT and XPath. A nice way of giving some design touches and filtering/sorting to XML documents. It wasn't perfect but I would take any time over the yaml/json/toml/ini.
- bambax 4y agoMe too!
- thraxil 4y agoI don't know if I'd say I "miss" XSLT and XPath, but yeah, it was fun and powerful at the time. I made some crazy stuff with Cocoon and AxKit that, if you didn't mind the syntax, were actually pretty elegant.
- manbart 4y agoI'm surprised XQuery never became more popular, it's essentially XSLT with a 'normal' syntax
- rwmj 4y agoXPath is cool (and I still use it for work regularly). jq JSON expressions seem to be inspired by it as well. XSLT was horrible though. A programming language with XML syntax, no thanks!
- int_19h 4y agoXQuery gives you 90% of XSLT with a syntax that is a superset of XPath. Verbose queries (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLWOR https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FLWOR) are especially nice and readable.