[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: XSLT and nuts-and-bolts (follow-up)
It think the mantra "It Must Be Easy" pervades a lot of web projects without respect to the actual problems to be solved or the required skills. It is part of the view that the web is a egalitarian society instead of a distributed computing system. So, we solve the wrong problems in the wrong contexts. DSSSL is not easy. The tools required to make it easy did not appear quick enough to offset the illusions about Internet Time, and worse, who should control web technologies. Note that XSL-FO is still not ubiquitous and the creators of DSSSL and XSLT overlapped considerably. I think they did a good job and what you are saying is that they need to keep doing it, perhaps adding some power tools to the spec. That said, XSLT is good for a lot of the jobs as you note but not raw text processing itself. len -----Original Message----- From: Tom Moertel [mailto:tom-lists-xml-dev@m...] I'd be interested to know how criticisms of DSSSL influenced the design of XSLT 1.0. Did people think that DSSSL required too much programming?
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