Originally posted by Dave Lenton:
While its debatable if it is or isn't a proper programming language, XSLT could be described as a programming language which has almost-methods (e.g. xsl:template) and control structures (e.g. xsl:choose, xsl:if etc), and is also at the same time an XML file.
XSLT, I agree can be considered more like a programming language. However, regarding XML, I could be missing, but AFAIK, I would say its more like a text/data file. On its own it doesn't need to have a whole lot of
programming language feel. Its the application that interprets the data in the XML file that makes it more useful.
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