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ebruchez on Dec 9, 2020 | parent | context | favorite | on: Show HN: This website is valid JSON

> XPath (which is procedural)

XPath is not procedural. It is entirely composed of expressions that compose and return results. The closest common language might be SQL.

ChrisMarshallNY on Dec 9, 2020 [–]

Fair ‘nuff. I consider it “more proceduralish” than XSLT. It’s really more like an FP language.

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