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Re: What will be the future improvements of XSLT?

Subject: Re: What will be the future improvements of XSLT?
From: "Simon St.Laurent" <simonstl@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Sep 1999 16:07:26 -0400
xslt simon st laurent
At 02:39 PM 9/15/99 +0100, David Carlisle wrote:
>
>> I think also that somebody who can manage HTML with a little JavaScript,
>> even given a small subset a XSL, will surely be puzzled by such a
>> declarative language.
>
>Why should this be?
>
>I find XSL far far less puzzling than javascript. Am I really weird?

You might be weird, but not because you find XSL less puzzling than
JavaScript.

I've found (mostly from reader comments) that people seem to like working
with either procedural (i.e. JavaScript) or declarative (i.e. XSL) but
there aren't a lot of people who are willing to put the effort into
shifting from one to the other.  

(There are some people who are comfortable with both, but in my experience
they are the minority, though most of them do seem to inhabit this list.)

Most of the Web developers I work with who are building XML-oriented
applications already have JavaScript and/or Java skills, and find XSL
occasionally useful at best, hair-pulling frustrating at worst.  

Basically, I can't recommend learning XSL if you already have experience
working with the DOM and/or procedural approaches - unless you have a
particular project where it seems especially appropriate or a manager who
thinks XSL _is required_ for XML. The rest of the world I tell (these days)
to try XSLT and see what they think of it. If they like it, great; if not,
they'll probably find it easier to get help with the procedural approach.

Simon St.Laurent
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Inside XML DTDs: Scientific and Technical
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http://www.simonstl.com


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