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Jeni--
Understood. Not that they still couldn't write the books (and make whatever profit is to be made). Or that the facts suggest (since they haven't written the books) that their intentions were opposite, namely to make XSLT/XPath easy. Or that they actually succeeded. I guess I should be on record as saying (as someone who hasn't had any formal CS training) that I think they *are* fundamentally easy, astonishingly so considering what they are asked to do, and notwithstanding all the nuances and subtleties. What I like to call the "Mysteries of XSL" (things like the built-in template processing, or the implicit and automatic casting of datatypes when evaluating expressions) *can* be seen to the bottom. What an astonishing language. Then there's the list. :grins. Maybe we can entice some of them to write books anyway. :-) (But I'd like *you* to write the one on the Mysteries.) No apologies needed. Thanks for being here, Jeni. Wendell At 09:48 AM 7/4/01, Jeni Tennison wrote: Hi Wendell,
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