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XSLT (Score:1)
Nothing bizarre about that at all. :-) I can’t claim to be a decade-of-experience expert in XSLT as I can claim to be in Perl, but I am very good with the language, and I like it a whole lot. The syntax is dreadfully verbose, but at the semantic level – its computation model – it is extremely elegant. You can
Re:XSLT (Score:1)
I guess the thing I find frustrating about libxml2 is that I want a nice compact way of saying "Get me the one&only FOO child element from the one&only BAR element of the document." Am I missing something?
It's also possible - moderately likely, even - that I'll convert my parsing to a SAX model, and that will make that particular frustration go away.
However, the real problem I have with libxml2 at the moment is that it doesn't like the TEI RelaxNG files, and I don't know whose fault that is. It means that I can't currently do any programmatic validation; I have to fire up oXygen if I want to check that a doc is valid.
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Yes, XPath. Forget the DOM API, and for the most part, SAX as well.
Ah, yes. The validation support in libxml2 is not all that great.