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Re: XSLT vs Omnimark
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- Subject: Re: XSLT vs Omnimark
- From: Paul Tchistopolskii <paul at qub dot com>
- Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2000 00:11:12 -0800
- Organization: The Qub Group
- References: <200003032121.QAA12997@web1-1.ability.net>
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Vincent,
First of all - thank you for the letter.
> I don't know if some of you know Omnimark. It is a streaming
> programming language and it works like XSLT but allows to include
> programming instructions and can react to many more events (others than
> tags).
> I want to make use of one of this technology to process an XML file. Do
> someone know some pros and cons of both "products" to help me to make a
> choice ?
I'l be also very interested to hear if somebody is using this ... strange ... product.
I mean Omnimark. ( and why do the use it ).
<omnimarksite>
http://www.omnimark.com/develop/om5/index.html
OmniMark is English-like, and task-specific.
Rich, expressive pattern-matching makes OmniMark more
readable and more powerful than Perl.
</omnimarksite>
Especialy I'l be very interested to know if there is something real behind the
sentence above. Actualy, when I see such sentences, I become very sceptic
about the product. Many of them tried to kill perl, but trying to kill perl in *that*
area?
Hardly possible, I think. Larry have build a great thing inheriting the most usesful
ideas inveneted by some other smart people. I'm not talking about the implementation,
but when somebody says : "we have better regular expressions than perl has" ... )
Looking at their examples I failed to find any answer why they are promoting
this as a "Key Features and Benefits" N 1.
Why OmniMark is more readable and more powerful than Perl?
Maybe because they have 'letter' but not \w ?
I think Omnimark is yet another eclectic (and wrong) reincarnation of perl.
XSLT is absolutely different concept. I don't understand how those 2 things
could be compared. We are not comparing XSLT with perl, right ?
Rgds.Paul.
PS. By the way - even I'm very interested to know better about any
alternatives to XSLT, I think Omnimark vs XSLT looks like offtopic here.
Omnimark vs Perl could be a cool topic for Perl-XML list.
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