Subject: Re: [xsl] XML/XSLT for web templating From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 09 Oct 2007 11:43:33 -0400 |
Has anybody noticed how still today (10 years after its introduction) people think of XML as CSV, but just more complicated and using angle brackets instead of commas? Aren't all the other "templating" solutions treating XHTML as plain text? How many times on this list have we seen somebody asking "why <a href="<xsl:value-of select="link"/>"> doesn't work"? Or how about the question "how do I open a tag inside an <xsl:if>?".
In any case, the reason why I originally wrote was to see if there was anybody who had experience with large scale deployments in the world of web publishing, that are using XML and XSLT and that could volunteer to share that experience. Of course I realize that there may be more than one constrain and NDAs to prevent doing so, but still, asking should be ok...
And yes, of course, I am aware of Coocon as a platform, Lenya, the Docbook standard etc, but one of the most common objections that I face is "there's no large site that uses it".
Somebody recently even reported "eBay was using it, but now they are moving
to JSP because it doesn't work". Since there's no sticker that says "made with XSLT"
or "powered by Saxon" (maybe we should start doing it) and transformed pages are still .html, it's hard to provide evidence of the contrary.
And, last, and half jokingly, why don't we start a "fear-not- xslt.com" collective blog? It could be not such a bad resource for w3c evangelists...
Cheers, Wendell
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