RE: Implementing a (fairly) complex business rule

I'm yet to come across someone who ever used the terms "love" and
"visual XSLT" in the same sentence.

Our clients have spent a lot of time, effort, and money choosing our
BPEL process manager suite, yet the developers still use Textpad when it
comes to the XSLT.

-----Original Message-----
From: Michael Kay [mailto:mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:11 AM
To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: RE:  Implementing a (fairly) complex business rule


> Quite so.  It's a heck of a lot better than trying to use
> BizTalk's drag-and-drop "mapper", though.  I even blogged about that:
>
> http://peredur.blog.co.uk/2008/09/11/a-matter-of-style-4714835
>

I've tried a number of visual programming tools, both for XSLT and for
other
things, and I've always given up in frustration within the hour. But
I've
always assumed there must be another kind of person who thinks
differently
from me and loves them.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/