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Re: SGML complexity

• From: Eric van der Vlist <vdv@d...>
• To: xml-dev@l...
• Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 12:57:12 +0200

Le mercredi 06 septembre 2006 à 03:10 -0700,
juanrgonzaleza@c... a écrit :
> Mukul Gandhi said:
> > Sorry I don't know about the languages I cited, so I cannot comment
> > about their popularity.
> >
> > I have seen XML (and XSLT) being used heavily in application
> > integration domain, so I can say XSLT is very very popular. And
> > application integration is definitely a very big market. Also these
> > days, XSLT is used a lot in conjunction with XSL-FO. XSLT these days is
> > also used a lot in Web Services and SOA.
> 
> I do not doubt that XSLT is used. But if an Amazon query returns 4712
> results for books on Javascript, 1362 for XSLT, and 11065 for PHP...

Hmmm... PHP is a popular server side scripting language indeed but
Javascript has become the de facto standard for client side scripting.
The number of web pages using Javascript is probably much bigger than
the number of pages served through PHP and the number of people having
ever written or adapted a script in Javascript is probably much bigger
than he number of people having ever written or adapted a script in PHP
as well.

I think that such figures should be taken literally and only mean that
the Amazon database knows more books about PHP than about Javascript
than about XSLT and shouldn't be extrapolated to popularity.

Furthermore, "popularity" involves a notion of "preference" and should
be clearly defined before we try to throw figures (the figures you give
seem to be more relevant to "visibility" than "popularity").

Eric

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