Language Preference

[river22_34]

Hi friends,
I am conducting a small survey on the choice of language many would use to process an XML document. Please feel free to cast your votes regarding this topic. Thank you.

[LaRoza]

Process it for what and in what context?

(I have only used Python and ECMAScript with the DOM for processing XML)

[river22_34]

Hi LaRoza,
Processing means displaying the XML document as a Web Page. Would you prefer Java or .Net. Bye!!!

[LaRoza]

Hi LaRoza,
Processing means displaying the XML document as a Web Page. Would you prefer Java or .Net. Bye!!!

Java, out of those two.

[river22_34]

Hi LaRoza,
Can you please vote for this option. Thank You.

[ghostdog74]

what do you hope to achieve from this poll?

[LaRoza]

what do you hope to achieve from this poll?

Not much, I didn't vote.

@OP If you want advice on what to use, then listen to the reasons for the choices. Java was simple, I don't do Microsoft. Don't value numbers over reason.

[ghostdog74]

Not much, I didn't vote.

was referring to OP :)

@OP If you want advice on what to use, then listen to the reasons for the choices. Java was simple, I don't do Microsoft. Don't value numbers over reason.

I thought there's a polling station somewhere, where all kinds of polls go to?

[popch]

I used XSLT. In one case, I stored the resulting HTML on the server, in another one, I let the client agent do the translation on the fly.

[lnostdal]

i'd rather not use any of those "languages"(#1) for this task, but if i had to pick one it would have to be java

edit: i'd use common lisp and an xml lib.

#1: .net isn't a language tbh. ... it's more like this: .net == jvm .. c# == java

[Compyx]

Useless poll, if you (OP) want advice on how to parse XML and perhaps in what language, just ask, don't start a 'poll' with only 2 answers (neither of which I'd choose).

For a quick and dirty approach I'd use Python, for a performance-critical approach I'd use C and expat.

[aks44]

I mostly use C++ (Xerces library). Where's my poll option? :p

[Majorix]

.NET has more the meaning of a language. When you say "I have developed this using .NET" you are most likely referring to either C# or VB.NET. Yes I know there are others too, but they aren't used as often. And yes, it's not known which language specifically you meant, like it wasn't clear with the OP.

You can use just any language to do XML processing. There should even be custom libraries for XML processing for many of the most common languages. Search your favorite custom library pages.

Out of those specified, I will vote for Java. And you most likely won't get too many people to vote for .NET (an M$ technology) on a Linux forum.

[Shin_Gouki2501]

style sheet transformation as mentioned before would properly the best to transform XML to XHTML.

[PuckStopper31]

As others have pointed out there are a number of ways not listed to transform xml into html. The question I have is more in the nature of what is the purpose of your inquiry. Are you trying to decide which platform to use or trying to provide substance to an argument that one should be used over the other? Or something else entirely?

It's not as simple as saying this platform or that platform and your terms are not exactly analogous.

Of the two I would more likely use Java, but a whole lot would depend on what I was trying to accomplish and what I had to work with and not just technology.

PS.

[shawnhcorey]

Processing means displaying the XML document as a Web Page. Would you prefer Java or .Net.

I would prefer Firefox. It does a reasonable job.

BTW, you can link a CSS to an XML to get rid of all those nasty <>'s.

[Wybiral]

"Processing means displaying the XML document as a Web Page.", what does this mean? I let the clients browser display the XML as a web page. I can use any language I want to generate that XML on the server... I don't understand your question.

For my XML needs, I would vote Python :)

[yabbadabbadont]

Assembler. Definitely assembler.

[slavik]

XML is text, text needs to be processed. I vote Perl (regex or the XML module, pick your poison). :)

[river22_34]

what do you hope to achieve from this poll?

I just wanted to know which language is most preferable by programmers to display an XML document on a web page.

[bharadwaj]

java of course we don't want windows and Gate's