Re: A Question TO XSLT Newbies

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Subject: Re: A Question **TO** XSLT Newbies
From: Larry Garfield <larry@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 21 Apr 2003 12:24:06 -0500

James J. Ramsey wrote:

--- Andrew Watt <andrew@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

1. What do I want to output?
2. Where will get that data?
3. How can I code it?

I'd suggest separating point 3 into two subpoints:

3a. *How* will I get the data?
3b. How will I channel that data into the output?

In my short experience with XSLT, point 3a was the
difficult part. I knew what data I wanted, but didn't
know at the time how to get to it. That's especially a
difficulty if one is not in control of the format of
the data source.

I have to agree on this one. Frankly, I found XSLT itself to be fairly easy to learn, once I got into it. And thinking declaritively in general wasn't a problem. It's figuring out how to pull data out properly that is the problem, vis, XPath. I HATE XPath. :-) I don't know how universal this is, but XPath is always the part of any XSLT script that gives me the most hassle, every single time.

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A Question **TO** XSLT Newbies
- Andrew Watt - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 04:39:51 -0400 (EDT)
  - James J. Ramsey - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 10:23:58 -0400 (EDT)
    - Larry Garfield - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 13:19:11 -0400 (EDT) <=
      - Andrew Watt - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:01:40 -0400 (EDT)
      - S Woodside - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:11:38 -0400 (EDT)
      - Larry Garfield - Thu, 24 Apr 2003 05:27:58 -0400 (EDT)
      - S Woodside - Mon, 21 Apr 2003 14:09:29 -0400 (EDT)

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