Subject: Re: Leventhal's challenge misses the point From: "Scott S. Lawton" <ssl@xxxxxxxxxx> Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 14:55:52 -0400 |
>The real challenge should be not what is within Michael Leventhal's ability, >but what is within an ordinary stylesheet writer's ability. With XSL they >get a certain amount of power and control within a fairly easy-to-understand >setting. Almost everyone will be able to learn enough of it for their >purposes; e.g. something like a client-generated table of contents should be >within anyone's reach. I agree that that's an interesting question; but IMHO, it's still very much an *open* question. Personally, I find XSL to be quite complicated. I have not had the time to recode my XSL project in JavaScript/DOM so I can't yet make a direct comparison. However, I often missed exactly the things that Michael Leventhal discusses, e.g. factoring code into functions/subroutines. Perhaps a "side effect free" subset of JavaScript plus any needed DOM and CSS enhancements would prove to be easier to use and as robust/safe as XSL's declarative approach. cheers, -- SSL, PreFab Software <http://www.prefab.com/> XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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