Re: [xsl] Re: XSLT model not "natural"? [was Re: [ANN] FreeMarker 2.3 as an alternative to XSLT]

Subject: Re: [xsl] Re: XSLT model not "natural"? [was Re: [ANN] FreeMarker 2.3 as an alternative to XSLT]
From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 01 Jul 2003 11:19:30 -0400
Jonathan,

I actually agree with the substance of most of your latest remarks; but I feel a need to restore some balance, and to set the record straight on one point--

At 01:58 PM 6/28/2003, you wrote:
I think the above surprising facts go a long way towards explaining why Mulberrytech, for example, is able to have a viable business training people to use XSLT, and does not offer equivalent training in teaching toddlers how to walk.

But we don't "have a viable business training people to use XSLT" -- rather, we have a viable business providing a wide variety of XML- (and SGML-) related services. XSLT is part of the mix, but if that was our only business we'd have been out on the street long ago. A business built on the premise that XSLT is impossibly hard to learn on your own is not viable, IMHO. Someone would invent that walker or training wheels or whatever and then we'd be out in the cold.


(On the contrary: we work on the premise that the emerging technologies are creating new markets, that these markets will be healthiest if they are relatively free of "dependency" relations ("co-dependency" relations?) between vendors and customers (i.e. "lock-in"), and that this will be good for everyone involved. This implies that the core technologies must be, and will be, open and freely available -- and learnable even without a big budget.)

Finally, I should insist that while XSLT and even XSLT-alternatives (at least to the extent of becoming aware of their existence) are in scope for this list, Mulberry's business model really is not. I address it only in the hope of correcting any misapprehensions out there.

But thanks nonetheless,
Wendell


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