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Line 15: ==Existing languages== ; '''[[XSL Transformations\|XSLT]]''' : XSLT is the best known XML transformation language. The XSLT 1.0 W3C recommendation was published in [[1999]] together with [[XPath]] 1.0, and it has been widely implemented since then. XSLT 2.0 has become a W3C recommendation since January 2007 and implementations of the specification like [[Saxon XSLT\|SAXON 8]] are already available. ; '''[[XML query language\|XQuery]]''' : XQuery is ~~also~~a ~~bound~~full tofunctional ~~become~~language, despite having "query" in the name. It is a ~~W3C~~de-facto standard used by Microsoft, Oracle, DB2, etc and has a W3C recommendation for versions 0.9 and 1.0. XQuery is not anwritten in XML ~~application,~~itself like XSLT. ~~Consequently~~is, so its syntax is much lighter. The language is based on XPath 2.0. XQuery programs cannot have [[Side effect (computer science)\|side-effects]], just like XSLT and provides almost the same capabilities (for instance: declaring variables and functions, iterating over sequences, using W3C schema types), even though the program syntax are quite different. In ~~addition~~XQuery tois ~~the~~logic ~~syntax~~driven, ~~the~~using ~~main~~FOR, ~~difference~~WHERE ~~between~~and ~~XSLT~~function ~~and~~composition ~~XQuery~~(e.g. isfn:concat("<html>", ~~the~~generate-body(), "</html>")). In contrast, XSLT is data-driven (push processing model,) where certain conditions of the input document trigger the execution of templates, ~~which~~rather isthan ~~not~~the ~~shared~~code ~~with~~executing ~~XQuery~~in the order in which it is written. ; '''[[Streaming Transformations for XML\|STX]]''' : STX (Streaming Transformations for XML) is inspired by XSLT but has been designed to allow a one-pass transformation process that never prevents streaming. Implementations are available in Java ([http://joost.sourceforge.net/ Joost]) and Perl ([http://www.gingerall.com/charlie/ga/xml/p_stx.xml?s=org XML::STX]). ; '''[[XML Script]]''' : An imperative scripting language inspired by [[Perl]] that uses the XML syntax. XML Script supports [[XPath]] as well as its proprietary DSLPath for selecting nodes from the input tree.

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