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I think XML/XSLT is the future and we are just a little ahead of our time here. The "steep" learning curve has, I believe, a bit to do with the fact that we are now at a fairly primitive and basic level compared with where this can/should/may go eventually. In a few years I think you'll see more mainstream products having a "Save As" kind of feature that will split the data and the XSL into two different sheets (or something like that!) and more non-techs will be storing their data in XML. At my job, we use WordPerfect. The online "help" shows really cool looking extensive XML and XSL support. (Actually doing it is giving me a headache though so I am still coding in Notepad, Cooktop, etc.) So, while I applaud WordPerfect for being ahead of the times in their vision, I wish they had a more understandable implementation. (It's probably just me or the fact that I don't get to spend more than a few minutes here and there playing with it and not the implementation, but....) Anyway, with cheap disk space and lots of available bandwidth, I believe you will see more and more data exchange going to XML - but hey, who knows. For the time being, I find it a lot of fun and it's helping me to be very productive so I will stick with it. -----Original Message----- From: owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:owner-xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of hnorris norris Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 9:02 PM To: xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: XSLT Consulting Market? Adam & Brian - Thanks very much for your in-depth replies - really appreciated! I got very interested in XSLT when I decided to create a totally interactive J2EE application front end using XLST and Apache ECS to dynamically generate my entire HTML user interface from my Java code : (bean processing logic --> ECS XML packaging --> apply XSL transforms from within Java --> XHTML ) I found this approach vastly more flexible and far less code than using JSPs or other technology. So I'm surprised that XLST isn't used much more widely - I'm guessing that the relatively steep learning curve to using its more sophisticated and powerful capabilities is primarily what is impeding its mainstream adoption. - Holten __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/ XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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