Subject: Re: [xsl] applying templates to attribute value From: Wendell Piez <wapiez@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 02 Jul 2008 11:52:08 -0400 |
...We wanted XML to be implementable in 2 weeks by a grad student. As opposed to taking an experienced full-time programmer a year, which was (according to available evidence) closer to the mark for a full SGML parser. But the first implementations were in Java and C rather than in Perl.
The DPH was the person in the documentation department tasked with (say) changing every reference to part 2006 to part 2009 without affecting dates... in, say, 100,000 documents of suitably marked-up XML. This was a real-life sort of example, and the point was that we could not (then) assume XML support in text processing languages such as Perl, so we had to make sure that non-XML-aware tools could handle XML reliably....
I never took it to reflect on the programming ability of the Perl programmer, though.
Cheers, Wendell
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