Re: MARC structure (Was: Re: Ceci n'

From: Alexander Johannesen <alexander.johannesen_at_nyob>
Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 20:16:31 +1000
To: NGC4LIB_at_listserv.nd.edu
> > The advantage to XML is not the XML per se, it's that it can work with XSLT

On 8/27/07, Bernhard Eversberg <ev_at_biblio.tu-bs.de> wrote:
> And XSLT is elegant? (Straighfoward, intuitively comprehended, swiftly
> written, nice to look at, easily debugged ...)

If you understand XML (specifically XPath) *and* declarative
programming, it's a truly fantastic piece of technology, and indeed
elegant. But it does have those two constraints.


alex
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