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  Subject: XSLT and WebApps past and future - opinions please
Author: Neal Walters
Date: 22 May 2009 12:57 PM
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I used to teach XML/XSLT back in 2000-2004, then I went back into consulting on the BizTalk platform. Back then, we were showing people how they can send XML to the browser, and let XSLT format it. Now, looking back, I have seen very few clients actually implement this scenario. Instead, people tend to use templates, CSS, .NET, SWING, GWT, TurboGears and numerous other platforms that seem to totally avoid the XML/XSLT pattern like the plague. My use of XSLT for my clients has always been back-end translation of XML to XML, not related to web pages.
Also, XFORMs has been a recommendation since Oct 2003, yet the browsers still don't support it natively, which means we couldn't really use it on a customer-facing website. This implies to me that the developer community is not demanding it from the browsers - or they are demanding other things with higher priority first.
So I'm looking for opinions and ideas? Do most people find XSL too difficult or "scary" compared to these other technologies? Or does it really lack features or is really too slow to develop and maintain?
Thanks,
Neal Walters
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