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Neal WaltersSubject: XSLT and WebApps past and future - opinions please
Author: Neal Walters
Date: 22 May 2009 12:57 PM
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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John BamptonSubject: XSLT and WebApps past and future - opinions please
Author: John Bampton
Date: 22 May 2009 01:28 PM
If you check out www.indeed.com you will see that there are about 3000 jobs that wants XSL skills. So it is definitely in demand but I wouldn't have it as your main or only skill.
In the last five jobs that I have had it was imperative that you had XSL skills and only one of them used it to create web pages, the rest were xml to xml and xml to pdf via xsl-fo. It is a pitty that browsers don't support XSLT 2.0 as there are some great additions to it compared to 1.0. I think XSLT's power comes in system intergration and SOA but that involves a higher degree of programming abilities.
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Neal WaltersSubject: XSLT and WebApps past and future - opinions please
Author: Neal Walters
Date: 27 May 2009 03:47 PM
Thanks John... I'd love to hear from another 5 or 10 people as well.

Neal

   
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