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Re: XSLT 2013 survey

Subject: Re: XSLT 2013 survey
From: Adam Retter <adam.retter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Mon, 28 Jan 2013 11:07:09 +0000
Re:  XSLT 2013 survey
Agreed! Your efforts are appreciated Jim...

On 28 January 2013 10:58, James Fuller <james.fuller.2007@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> i've done a number of polls over a long period of time (and far from
> an expert) ... the only constant is that everyone will have an issue
> with some part of it.
>
> pls see my previous answer to MKay.
>
> J
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jan 28, 2013 at 11:55 AM, Adam Retter
> <adam.retter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> These poll questions seem a little strange to me -
>>
>> How are Q1 and Q2 different?
>>
>> Q5 seems to mix up Operating Systems and programming languages. Surely
>> if you are going to have Linux and MacOSX, then you also need Windows
>> and Solaris. Also perhaps better to separate language and OS. The
>> language question may be irrelavant to some, as may the OS question.
>>
>> On 28 January 2013 10:51, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>> Oh dear. My response to almost any survey is to say "you're asking the wrong
>>> questions".
>>>
>>> "Please rank the importance of each xslt version".
>>>
>>> You need to ask people how important it is to them or their employers, not
>>> how important they think it is to the world in general. Otherwise they are
>>> guessing the information you are trying to discover.
>>>
>>> You need to explain what you mean by "importance": it's about what the
>>> impact/value is, or is likely to be, on some timescale. What timescale?
>>>
>>> And you need to distinguish "It is important to me that this technology
>>> should be available" from "I don't think this technology will have much
>>> effect on us because I don't think it will be available on the timescale in
>>> which we need it".
>>>
>>> Michael Kay
>>> Saxonica
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 28/01/2013 09:52, James Fuller wrote:
>>>>
>>>> pls consider taking the XSLT 2013 survey
>>>>
>>>> http://jimfuller2011.polldaddy.com/s/xslt-2013
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Adam Retter
>>
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>> tweet: adamretter
>> http://www.adamretter.org.uk
>



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