Subject: RE: [xsl] XSLT vs Perl From: "Michael Kay" <mhk@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2004 15:27:03 -0000 |
> No, I am not trolling. I've spent time reading the spec. I > see that it is just another scripting language with very > little left of the good things contained in the original idea of XSLT. Well, these comments are more useful than your original one-line troll, but they still fall short of a critique that one can respond to meaningfully. > > There were achievements and flaws in XSLT 1.0. An elegant > tool to manipulate XML infosets is an achievement. > Inconsistencies in the syntax of both XPath and XSLT ar flaws. > > Instead of fixing flaws and securing achievements by producing a > probably source-incompatible but more consistent and easy to > use version 2, the committee has developed a specification > which is beyond my personal capabilities to learn and use. Which specific facilities do you consider to be too difficult to learn and use? Which things would you have left out, or designed differently? Asserting that you could do a better job yourself in half the time is all very well, but you need to demonstrate how. Do remember that a language specification is not designed as a tutorial. I'm afraid you know more about your "personal capabilities" than I do. My own belief is that we have made some very large classes of problem much easier to tackle than they were before, notably string manipulation, date manipulation, and grouping, and that many people who found XSLT 1.0 too difficult will find XSLT 2.0 much easier. > It can be my fault, but I don't see what can be made easier or > at least with comparable easiness using XSLT 2.0 than with > any of other well-developed scripting languages currently > widely deployed. > If you find DOM-level navigational programming easy, then you're welcome to it. Michael Kay XSL-List info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/xsl/xsl-list
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