michaelhkay

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   by michaelhkay 6y ago

   Accumulators in XSLT 3.0 are related to tree folds; certainly they are an attempt to solve the same problem, of providing pure functional (stateless) access to data obtained incrementally through tree navigation.
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   by michaelhkay 6y ago

   If you're looking at the history, it's not when Unicode or UTF-8 was invented that mattered, it's when it emerged as a winner. Remember that networking people wanted variable width characters for space reasons, and data proce
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   by michaelhkay 6y ago

   If you've got a few hundred spare weekends, please write one!
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   by michaelhkay 6y ago

   I flew all the way from London to California once to help a household-name IT company with a perceived XML performance problem, which turned out to be simply that they were constructing the XML document using Java string concatenation rathe