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 > get some perspective, and this usually doesn't take long at all. I have > had much occasion working with developers who curse and splutter all the > time at all the little tripping points of XSLT that Mike Kay points out. > But at least twice, I remember a developer saying, after a few days of > this, something to the effect of "wow, XSLT is certainly a different way > of thinking, but I must say that I accomplished my XML processing task > using XSLT in a fraction of the time it took for me to do the same with > DOM and Java". I have also heard variations of this (i.e. APIs other than > DOM and languages other than Java) several times. > > In the end, productivity is what makes people accept XSLT. Yes, XSLT is like XML in this respect. Seductively easy to get snared in its embrace, but painfully unforgiving when someone unknowingly violates one of its expectations. The specs try hard to minimize the number of death-traps waiting to swallow the inexperienced, but people are bound to get stuck from time to time. But even with the current situation of "muddle along and get bloodied until you find productivity", I think XML is an enriching institution. And since only two percent of the travelers read the map before heading off across the field, it is up to the book authors and tool vendors to put big orange flags near the death-traps that we discover, so more people make it to the land of productivity without getting bad attitudes. 
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