The advantages of XSLT:
* XSLT is in xml format, thus XSLT files can be parsed, validated, dynamically created (e.g. using templates) using xml / soa tools.
* Pull/program-driven approach: XSLT works well to query high structured / predictable documents (e.g. a WSDL-defined SOAP message)
* The template is the strong point of XSLT, although it's possible to simulate this with a user-defined xquery function using tree transversal.
* With xsl:import you can override templates, thus improving reusability (analogous to inheritance & polymorphism in OO languages.)
The advantages of Xquery:
* Push/content-driven approach: Xquery is easier than XSLT to deal with loose structure / less predictable documents (e.g. html) where the stylesheets have to react dynamically to the content of the child elements.
* Xquery is less verbose and less cumbersome compared with XSLT, thus it's easier to learn.
* Xquery applies type strictness using the datatype definitions in the schemas.
Other factors to decide is the supports in the tools you used, e.g. Oracle Soa suite has better xslt editor, no xquery editor. On the other hand, the Oracle OSB has better xquery support than xslt. In general XSLT is better adopted in the SOA tools than Xquery, especially the old tools.
My experience: in my job I need to learn them both, when I started to use xml transformation in my job (about 2006) xquery was not exist, so xslt was the only option. Nowadays people in my office use xquery instead of xslt since they use oracle osb more, which has better xquery support, so I need to learn to adopt xquery more.
Source: Steve's blogs http://soa-java.blogspot.com/
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