Re: Leventhal's challenge misses the point

Kay Michael wrote:
> 
> But then, non-programmers can learn programming too. What we really want is
> evidence that non-programmers can learn XSL more easily than they can learn
> (say) Javascript.

No fair! You need to compare XSLT against Javascript+DOM and all of XSL
against Javascript+DOM+CSS.

If your interest is in going from XML->display then I think that "all of
XSL" is certainly a simpler route. Can you imagine, for example, a single
book that goes into great detail on JavaScript AND the DOM AND CSS? I
think that it would be rather large.

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