XSLT is Weak on Manipulating Text (Strings)
- An XSLT processor expects to work on
- a tree of nodes
- not an XML file of tags and text
- If you have untagged files
(comma delimited, space delimited, tab delimited)
- there is no tree
- strings must be “parsed” into pieces
- XSLT does this awkwardly
(XSLT 2.0 has better string manipulation than XSLT 1.0, but…)
