Subject: Re: alternating tags in a list? From: Guy_Murphy@xxxxxxxxxx Date: Mon, 14 Dec 1998 17:18:33 +0000 |
Hi. Very interesting point. It won't discourage me from using XSL at, I'll simply use a version that has ECMAScript evaluation, which is worrying when you consider that a good many developers might do likewise. Cheers Guy. xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx on 12/14/98 06:26:45 PM To: XSL-List@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx cc: (bcc: Guy Murphy/UK/MAID) Subject: Re: alternating tags in a list? --- Paul Prescod wrote: ---> > As James Clark has pointed out on several occasions, if you want to turn > every other row in a table blue, this is *trivial* in DOM code. Why mess > up the nice declarative properties of the XSL stylesheet when the feature > you want is already available and well specified? Is it worth reducing the > number of XSL implementations? If its so *trivial* why shouldn't XSL be able to handle alternating tags? Its not so trivial to create DOM code for a non-DOM programmer. You even cited an example of your own. > Nevertheless, I can say this about XSL: I've deployed it in two > situations. The first was a markup user who doesn't know how to program. If they wanted to do alternating tags, what would you have told them to do? I can do a lot with an XSL transformation, so why should I have to abandon XSL altogether for the sake of a trivial function. I think not including these simple functions or some way of embedding these function is going to discourage a lot of people from using XSL. Paul T. 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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