XProc: XML Pipelines and RESTful Services

Anyone who has used languages such as XSLT should have a pretty fair idea about the complexities involved in treating XML as a programming language itself - it's verbose, forces thinking into a declarative model that can be at odds with the C-based languages currently used by most programmers, can be difficult to read, and as a syntax it doesn't always fit well with the requirements in establishing parameter signatures and related structures.

Read the full news item. (http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/oreilly/xml/~3/sLT_KYAf7lY/xproc-xml-pipelines-and-restfu.html)