Subject: Re: <xsl-script> From: "Matthew MacKenzie" <matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 17:49:14 -0700 |
It doesn't really matter what we individually choose to use for XML processing...BUT, this is an XSL list...so naturally people are going to be biased towards XSL. Personally, I just use Perl...and will until XSLT solidifies. It is just too much trouble re-reading the spec all of the time. Matt ----- Original Message ----- From: James Robertson <jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Sent: Wednesday, May 12, 1999 5:04 PM Subject: Re: <xsl-script> > > At 17:24 12/05/1999 , Paul Prescod wrote: > > | Rick Geimer wrote: > | > > | > A sample in my favorite language, without a function library :-) > | > | Cheater. Anyhow, I think you helped to make my point and you might well > | have intended to. For those that don't recognize Rick's favorite language, > | it is a sophisticated and expensive language designed specifically for XML > | processing. In other words, it is like a proprietary XSL on steroids. Its > | existence demonstrates that ordinary scripting languages are really not as > | easy to use for this stuff as text processing "4GLs". > > Why is this cheating? > > Just because some of us choose to use a well-tested, > highly-functional system that is here now, and does > everything XSL aims to do ... :-) > > Seriously, though, I do think that XSL needs to > prove itself against systems such as Omnimark. > > Particularly since Omnimark LE is free, and can > probably do 95-100% of everything that has been > written in XSL so far. > > Yes, the full copy of Omnimark is very expensive. > But when you factor in all the real costs of > using other tools, I think it stacks up pretty > well. > > How many hours have people spent chasing > the XSL spec now, and finding ways of making > code work in broken implentations? > > And XSL will never match the full functionality > of Omnimark. > > Cheers, > > James > > > ------------------------- > James Robertson > Step Two Designs Pty Ltd > SGML, XML & HTML Consultancy > http://www.steptwo.com.au/ > jamesr@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > "Beyond the Idea" > ACN 081 019 623 > > > 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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